{"id":34,"date":"2025-07-15T14:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:17:26","slug":"balcatta-baby-death-mother-of-seven-month-old-baby-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34\/","title":{"rendered":"Balcatta baby death: Mother of seven-month-old baby charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The mother of a seven-month-old baby boy stabbed to death in front of other family members at a home in Balcatta has been charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Emergency services were called to Campion Avenue after a 13-year-old girl found a lifeless six-month-old baby boy about 3am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A woman, believed to be the infant\u2019s mother, was taken from the scene to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital under priority conditions for a mental health assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A neighbour, who has asked to remain anonymous, said a young mother had been living at the property with her two children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cShe (mother) is a really kind, sweet person that loved her kids,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ced7d9ac86f414de013a6ea263f89ad57cab3044.jpg\" alt=\"A woman was taken from the scene to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconA woman was taken from the scene to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Credit: Riley Churchman\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI know she had been struggling lately with the new baby and her own personal stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The man said he was awake watching TV at about 3am on Monday morning when police responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI came outside because I was worried that something might have happened to her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0a315be2eefec2717d69bea68b6cba75f436add5.jpg\" alt=\"No charges have been laid.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconNo charges have been laid. Credit: Riley Churchman\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWhen I heard that one of the kids had died, I just felt sick to my stomach. I still do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Luke Jackson was among many residents who were spoken to by detectives on Monday morning, he was completely unaware of what had occurred metres from his doorstep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cIt\u2019s awful &#8211; like something happens like this on the street you live at. It\u2019s pretty terrible,\u201d Mr Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cJust for the (police) forensics to have to go to a job and deal with that is just, you know, there is nothing worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Other residents reported disturbances at the address in the past with police called on several occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a seven-month-old baby boy stabbed to death in front of other family members at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,43,44,47,46,41,39,42,40,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-34","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-north","12":"tag-perth","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}