A depressed mother has been spared jail for killing her 10-week-old daughter six days after the girl was discharged into her parents’ care against the advice of healthcare professionals. Lily-Mai Hurrell Saint George suffered 18 rib fractures, a leg fracture and a fatal head injury at the hands of Lauren Saint George, 25, hours after a home visit from a social worker.
Saint George was suffering from post natal depression when she violently shook Lily-Mai and pulling and twisting her leg on January 31 2018. Lily-Mai died at Great Ormond Street Hospital on February 2, when surgeons turned off her life support machine due to the extent of her brain damage.
Six days before the attack Haringey social services decided Lily-Mai should be transferred to the sole care of her parents, Saint George and Darren Hurrell, 25, despite professionals at Barnet Hospital warning she was at risk of neglect.
