Baby rushed to hospital with serious injures in Auckland
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Police are investigating after a two-month-old baby was taken to hospital with serious injuries in Auckland overnight.
The child remains in Ōtāhuhu's Middlemore hospital and is being treated.
Acting Detective Inspector Veronica McPherson of Counties Manukau CIB said police were looking into what happened.
"Police are continuing to make inquiries into the circumstances of how the baby came to be injured," she said.
It's the second incident involving a child in Auckland over the past week after a toddler was
found in a suitcase
in the luggage compartment of a bus travelling from Whangarei to Auckland on Sunday.
A 27-year-old woman has appeared in North Shore District Court
charged with ill-treating a child
.
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