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Joby Rowe faces court for allegedly killing his daughter

A MAN accused of murdering his three-month-old baby girl is returning to a Victorian court to find out if he should stand trial.

Accused baby killer Joby Anthony Rowe faces court to find out if he will have to stand trial. Picture Daryl Pinder
Accused baby killer Joby Anthony Rowe faces court to find out if he will have to stand trial. Picture Daryl Pinder

A MAN accused of murdering his three-month-old baby girl is returning to a Victorian court to find out if he should stand trial.

Joby Anthony Rowe, 24, has been charged with murdering his daughter Alanah at their central Victorian home in August last year.

He is due to appear before Bendigo Magistrates Court on Friday for the second day of a committal hearing that will determine whether he should stand trial.

Rowe’s daughter girl went into cardiac arrest on August 29 and was flown to hospital in a critical condition, but died the next day.

Doctors at the Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital told Alanah’s mother, Stephanie Knibbs, her daughter had sustained an injury to her head, according to a police statement tendered to court on Thursday.

Rowe told his partner and paramedics he had been giving Alanah a bottle of baby formula when she choked, vomited and fell unconscious.

Ms Knibbs says blood was coming out of her daughter’s nose when she returned home from work that day.

The 26-year-old also told police she heard Rowe say “Alanah wake up” as the baby lay on the change table.

Alanah was “limp and floppy” and struggling to breathe when her mother picked her up.

Ms Knibbs and her stepmother gave the baby CPR with the help of a triple-0 operator until a paramedic arrived and stabilised her.

Forensic paediatrician Joanna Tully said in court on Friday brain scans revealed baby Alanah had suffered subdural haemorrhages, which she alleges is a result of shaken baby syndrome.

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