{"id":1035,"date":"2025-03-13T03:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/two-women-face-court-charged-with-manslaughter-after-home-birth-death-of-nsw-baby\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T03:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:30:26","slug":"two-women-face-court-charged-with-manslaughter-after-home-birth-death-of-nsw-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/two-women-face-court-charged-with-manslaughter-after-home-birth-death-of-nsw-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Two women face court charged with manslaughter after home-birth death of NSW baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police allege 41-year-old woman was practising as<strong> <\/strong>an unregistered midwife while another woman, 51, held no medical qualifications and was also unregistered when baby died<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/13\/australia-news-live-energy-prices-cost-of-living-tariffs-steel-aluminium-election-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-ntwnfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two women who police allege practised as unregistered midwives have been charged with manslaughter after a baby died after a home birth on the New South Wales mid north coast.<\/p>\n<p>The women, aged 41 and 51, appeared in Coffs Harbour local court on Wednesday in relation to the newborn boy\u2019s death in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/mar\/13\/coffs-harbour-midwives-court-home-birth-death-baby-ntwnfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police allege 41-year-old woman was practising as an unregistered midwife while another woman, 51, held no medical qualifications and was also unregistered when baby died Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Two women who police allege practised as unregistered midwives have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 14:46:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}