Second suspicious baby death rocks Queensland

Queensland has been rocked by the tragic news of another baby death just one day after a nine-month-old girl was found washed up on a beach.

Just a day after a nine-month-old girl’s body was found washed up on a Gold Coast beach, another, even younger child has been found dead in suspicious circumstances in Queensland.

Police say a 35-year-old woman and 37-year-old man are helping with police inquiries after the death of a four-month-old girl in the southern Brisbane suburb of Logan.

She was taken to the Logan Hospital on Monday morning with life-threatening injuries.

She was then transferred to the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane in a critical condition, where she died yesterday afternoon.

The young girl died at Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. Picture: ABC

Detectives from the Logan Child Protection and Investigation Unit, and homicide detectives are investigating.

The Department of Child Safety said it could not comment on individual cases.

It comes just a day after another baby girl was found dead on a Gold Coast beach in a separate incident.

Queensland has been rocked by two suspicious baby deaths in two days. Picture: AAP/John Gass

The nine-month-old’s body was found washed up on the beach at Surfers Paradise on Monday.

Her homeless 48-year-old father and 23-year-old mother are in custody but no charges have been laid.

Monday’s death stoked serious questions from the community about how a child could have been left in such conditions, despite the family’s tragic circumstances being reported to authorities.

Local resident Erin Sorensen says she went to police two months ago to share her concerns about the baby, as well as a toddler who was also sleeping rough with the couple.

“Clearly, I wasn’t taken seriously,” she wrote on Facebook.

“It was winter and the dunes were freezing every time the sun went down. I didn’t think that was good for a baby or toddler.

“They had blankets at that time but I would hear the newborn crying early hours of morning,” a Surfers Paradise resident told the Gold Coast Bulletin yesterday. “Why was the baby left with the parents — just why?”