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Inquest Opens Into Dormanstown Baby's Death, Provisional Cause Is Head Injury

The hearing sets the course for the investigation by formally identifying the child.

Overview

  • The inquest at Teesside Coroner's Court, which opened Tuesday, named the baby as Maggie May Ann Moody and recorded a provisional cause of death as a head injury.
  • The child, who was one day short of three months old, was identified by her grandmother two days after her death.
  • Initial accounts to the coroner said two dogs moved from the rear garden into the room where she was before help arrived.
  • Paramedics guided CPR by phone after a 1.33pm 999 call reported she was not breathing, and she was pronounced dead at James Cook University Hospital on April 9.
  • Armed officers destroyed one dog at the scene and a second was later put down, and three people not related to the family remain on conditional bail as inquiries continue.