{"id":254139,"date":"2025-10-31T22:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254139\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:29:14","slug":"woman-charged-over-the-alleged-murder-of-an-eight-month-old-baby-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254139\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged over the alleged murder of an eight-month-old baby in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Alanah Gail Smithwick, 28, arrested in BaldivisShe will face court later today\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-311\/tita-smith.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TITA SMITH, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  02:47 EDT, 31 October 2025   |  Updated:  02:58 EDT, 31 October 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A woman has been charged with murder after an eight-month-old baby was found dead inside a suburban home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Alanah Gail Smithwick, 28, was arrested at a property on Winpara Way, in Baldivis in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/perth\/index.html\" id=\"mol-957bad40-b5f9-11f0-8823-0f5ff57254d9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Perth<\/a>&#8216;s southern suburbs, on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Emergency services were <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15241153\/baby-dies-perth-home-baldivis.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">called to the home<\/a> about 10.15am, with officers allegedly arriving to find the eight-month-old dead inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Detectives immediately declared the death as suspicious and Smithwick was taken into custody at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police announced on Friday the 28-year-old had been charged with murder.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police spent Friday scouring the scene for evidence, with a pram and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/halloween\/index.html\" id=\"mol-851c8790-b625-11f0-b400-250e47b21096\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Halloween<\/a> decorations seen on the front lawn of the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The incident has rocked the quiet community as residents grapple to come to terms with the news.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f816ae9f54d2dd48\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/103467699-15244697-image-m-23_1761874537938.jpg\" height=\"635\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Alanah Smithwick, 28, has been charged over the alleged murder of a baby\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Alanah Smithwick, 28, has been charged over the alleged murder of a baby\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3c41c5ff4b8c32f3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/103467813-15244697-image-m-28_1761874859893.jpg\" height=\"346\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Police are pictured at the scene on Thursday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Police are pictured at the scene on Thursday<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I don&#8217;t know what to say really, I&#8217;m in shock,&#8217; neighbour Graham told 9NEWS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I&#8217;m pretty shaken,&#8217; another neighbour, Prescinda, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s so sad&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Anyone with information is urged to contact Police on 131 444, or report information to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or at www.crimestopperswa.com.au\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Woman charged over the alleged murder of an eight-month-old baby in Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alanah Gail Smithwick, 28, arrested in BaldivisShe will face court later today\u00a0 By TITA SMITH, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,100,43,44,46,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-254139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-perth","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}