SYDNEY, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Police in Australia's state of Western Australia (WA) have charged a woman with the murder of her infant son, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Tuesday.
The seven-month-old boy was found with stab wounds and declared deceased by emergency services at a home in the northern suburbs of Perth shortly after 3 a.m. local time on Monday.
His mother, a 31-year-old woman, was taken to the hospital under police guard and was on Tuesday night charged with murder.
Speaking at a press conference earlier on Tuesday, WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said that the incident was being treated as a domestic violence homicide.
He said that other family members were home at the time of the baby's death and that it was a confronting scene for first responders.
"There would be very few cases where you would have a crime scene of such a horrific nature for our officers and for first responders involved," Blanch said. ■
