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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Melissa Arbuckle: Depressed Melbourne mother who killed infant daughter spared jail

Reuters

A woman from Australia was spared jail for killing her three-month-old daughter by keeping her on rail tracks as she was suffering from postpartum depression.

Melissa Arbuckle, a 32-year-old veterinarian, had pleaded guilty to infanticide before the Victorian Supreme Court on Tuesday over her newborn Lily’s death at a train station in Melbourne’s Upwey on 11 July 2021 and was released on Thursday.

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