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Duncan Murray

Mum who killed baby tried to kidnap child decades later

A woman previously jailed for killing her own baby faces sentencing for trying to abduct a girl. (Keri Megelus/AAP PHOTOS)

A woman who unintentionally killed her baby daughter by placing her in a scalding hot bath faces a return to jail after trying to kidnap a young girl nearly two decades later.

A judge has called for more evidence about the woman's mental health and history of violent offending after noting she later downplayed the tragedy involving her own child, describing it as "one mistake".

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