Open AccessUnexpected Baby Death - SIDS or Not?
Author(s) -
Siniša Franjić
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.36811/ijfs.2021.110015
Subject(s) - girl , pediatrics , medicine , psychiatry , autopsy , psychology , developmental psychology , pathology
A two-month-old baby girl died on April 4, 2021, at the Children's Home in Osijek, Croatia. The child was temporarily taken away of her parents because she was born prematurely, she was diagnosed with a risky health condition and it was assessed that the parents were unable to meet the child’s needs. Parents are beneficiaries of social welfare. The mother suffers from diabetes and epilepsy. An autopsy determined that the child had died of pneumonia. The parents last visited the child the day before her death and she was cheerful, happy and in a good mood, but she was coughing, which they warned the authorities at the Children's Home in Osijek. Because of the tragic outcome, the parents publicly expressed doubt in the official version of this sad event which did not have to end in death. This paper describes what a criminal procedure should do in this and similar cases.Keywords: Child; Death; SIDS; Criminal Investigation