Infanticide: Vulnerable Mothers Who Kill Their Babies Can Be Granted Leniency So Why Is This Historic Law Being Rejected In Favour Of Harsher Punishm menafn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from menafn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The harsher verdicts imposed on two child mothers shows why the UK’s law of infanticide remains so important, more than a century after it was introduced
Lauren Saint George, of Haringey, has been spared jail for killing her daughter, six days after Haringey social services discharged her into her parents’ care
Mother Lauren Saint George (pictured), 25 of Enfield, who shook her ten-week-old daughter to death after social workers allowed her baby to be taken home has today been spared jail.
Lily-Mai Hurrell Saint George weighed little more than a few bags of sugar when she was born prematurely at 31 weeks in London s Barnet Hospital. This is one of the first pictures of her.