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Newborn in hospital in Padua, tested positive for cocaine

The investigators now want to understand if the little girl was a victim of the “baby shake” syndrome, that is the violent and continuous shaking to make her stop crying, or if the trauma suffered was caused by inattention on the part of one of the parents. For now, the Venice Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a file without the hypothesis of a crime and without suspects.

The cocaine, traced through the examination of the hair, would not however have been ingested by the child but absorbed by proximity. Meanwhile, the child’s conditions, which continue to be serious, have improved in recent days, and the child, initially hospitalized in pediatric intensive care, has been transferred to a lower intensity ward even though she is continuously monitored.

In the meantime, investigators are analyzing family dynamics: in fact, the girl lives with her mother, who would not be married and does not live with her father: both were heard to try to reconstruct what happened and to understand what caused the brain trauma. to the little one. The unknown now concerns any brain and neurological damage that the little girl may have suffered.

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