Hong Kong police have laid a holding charged of murder against a 30-year-old woman who is accused of violently shaking her two-month-old baby, causing it’s death on Tuesday.
The woman’s 31-year-old sister was also arrested for misleading police officers.
Police were called to the house in Tai San Back Street, Cheung Chau, at around 5:45pm on Tuesday by the mother, who said her only son, Matthew Lee Man-hin, had collapsed.
The boy was sent to hospital in an unconscious state and certified dead around an hour later.
“Initial investigations revealed the baby was slapped and thrown into a baby cot before being shaken violently,” a police source told the SCMP, adding that the boy had bleeding on the brain.
The unemployed woman’s husband reportedly moved out of the flat about a month ago.
The case will be mentioned at the Eastern Magistrates’ Court today, while the sister has been bailed and is required to report back to police in mid-September.
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