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Melissa Meehan

New mum's cry for help ignored before killing baby

Victoria's state coroner found failures to adequately respond to a mum's repeated cries for help. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

A coroner says insufficiencies in Victoria's maternal health services in the lead-up to a mentally unwell mother killing of her nine-week-old baby need to be addressed.

Melissa Arbuckle was in the depths of severe postpartum depression and psychosis when she laid her nine-week-old daughter Lily on railway tracks at Upwey in July 2021.

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