FILICIDE UK: Teenager, 18, charged with causing death of four-month-old baby and neglecting two others

• Mother charged with neglecting baby's two siblings, aged three and one 
• Baby taken to hospital but pronounced dead after just 15 minutes
• Teenager will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court tomorrow

By BECKY EVANS

PUBLISHED: 15:47 GMT, 6 October 2013 | UPDATED: 15:47 GMT, 6 October 2013

An 18-year-old woman has today been charged with causing the death of her four-month-old baby daughter.

Police have also charged the teenager with wilful neglect of the baby girl and her two siblings, aged three and one.

She will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court in east London tomorrow. 

The woman, 18, will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court (pictured) tomorrow charged with causing the death of her baby daughter and neglecting two other children, aged one and three years old

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police's Homicide and Major Crime Command unit launched an investigation after the baby girl died on Friday. 

She was taken to hospital by paramedics at about 5.30pm from a house in Bow, east London, but was pronounced dead just 15 minutes later. 

The London Ambulance Service contacted police due to the girl's condition. 

The woman, who has not been named by the police, was arrested yesterday and later charged.

A post mortem has yet to take place

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