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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Jonathan Humphries & Kieran Isgin

Baby dies after alcoholic mum passes out on top of her

A mum passed out while under the influence of alcohol only to wake up to discover her baby died.

Claire Ross, 39, had struggled with severe mental illness which only drove her crippling alcohol addiction, a court heard. After the tragic death of her first baby, her case was not referred to social services until the same thing happened to another one of her children.

The double tragedy happened shortly after she moved from Merseyside to Nyon, Switzerland, in 2018. However, her alcoholism had already caused issues before she moved.

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