A UK court gave a community order to a care home worker convicted of the infanticide of her newborn daughter, who was found dead in a park. Babita Rai, 24, was previously cleared by a jury at Winchester Crown Court of murdering the child, who suffered injuries including multiple skull fractures and was believed to have lived for less than six hours. Her body was discovered by a gardener in a park in Aldershot, Hampshire, several days later on May 19, 2017. Winchester Crown Court heard that the fatal injuries to the newborn girl, who was not given a name and was referred to by police as Baby M, were inflicted by Rai or another unknown person acting with her. Justice Johnson handed Rai a two-year community order with a rehabilitation activity requirement for 30 days, citing Rai’s “psychological trauma” and the rarity of custodial sentences in infanticide cases. The judge described how Rai …
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