{"id":1177660,"date":"2026-08-30T18:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1177660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:31:15","slug":"seven-arrested-after-death-of-newborn-baby-girl-in-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1177660\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven arrested after death of newborn baby girl in Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a newborn baby girl in Sheffield, police said. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers were called at about 06:00 BST on Sunday to a property on Holywell Heights in the Wincobank area following reports of a concern for the safety of the baby.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Yorkshire Police said, despite the best efforts of officers and paramedics, the baby was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Ch Insp Emma Knight confirmed the force was &#8220;working to determine the ages of some of those arrested&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;We are aware news of this will be deeply concerning and I want to reassure our local communities that we have a dedicated team of detectives and officers hard at work to ensure justice is secured for the baby girl at the heart of this investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knight added: &#8220;Our investigation is in its early stages and we would like to remind people to avoid speculating about this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a newborn baby girl in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1177661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":["post-1177660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sheffield","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117185890672172652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}