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AN EAST Lancashire woman has admitted trying to kill her baby.
The Rossendale woman, 38, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had earlier denied an offence of attempted murder.
But she pleaded guilty to the alternative charge of attempted infanticide at a hearing at Preston Crown Court yesterday.
The defendant was arrested and charged after she tried to suffocate the four-week-old child at the family home on June 26 this year, the court was told.
She will be sentenced at the end of next month after the judge, Anthony Russell QC, the Recorder of Preston, ordered a psychiatric report.
He told the court he would reserve the case so he could personally deal with it.
The child, whose identity is protected by a court order, is now living with relatives, the court was told.
The Infanticide Act 1938 provides that when a mother tries to kill her child, when the child is under 12 months old, and at the time the balance of the mother's mind is disturbed as a result of her not having fully recovered from the effects of giving birth, then the mother will be guilty of infanticide rather than attempted murder.
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