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Karen Sweeney

Treatment for mum after baby's train death

Melissa Arbuckle has been spared a jail sentence for killing her three-month-old daughter Lily. (AAP)

Anxious and struggling under a mistaken belief that she had harmed her baby girl, Melissa Arbuckle believed she had run out of options.

The new mum was pre-occupied by concerns she had caused shaken baby syndrome in three-month-old Lily by rocking her bassinet too strongly.

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