05 July 2023 , 08:27
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A woman has been charged with the murder of a baby and the assault of a one-year-old girl.
Karen Foster, 61, of no fixed address, will appear before Blackburn Magistrates’ Court this morning.
Lancashire Police were called to an address in Hapton around 1.20pm on March 1 last year following reports an infant boy had suffered a medical episode.
Emergency services attended, and the child, aged nine-and-a-half months, was taken to hospital for treatment.
However, he sadly died on March 5.
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His family continue to be supported by specially trained officers and our thoughts are with them at this time.
In March, a 60-year-old woman from Haslingden and a 78-year-old man from Burnley were arrested on suspicion of Section 18 Assault and were subsequently arrested on suspicion of murder after further enquiries.
The man has now been released without charge but after consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, the force yesterday charged the woman with the baby’s murder.
Foster is also charged with a separate S47 assault on a one-year-old girl in Hapton on March 22, 2019.
She is not related to either of the two victims and the two children are not related to one another.