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crime reporter Lia Harris

Sydney mother not criminally responsible for drowning baby in bathtub due to mental illness

A Sydney mother will not serve any jail time after a Supreme Court Judge found she was living with severe mental illness when her baby drowned in the bathtub.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been undergoing treatment in a secure forensic hospital since the two-month-old girl was killed in February last year.

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