Neighbours’ horror over injured baby

NEIGHBOURS today spoke of their horror at discovering a 10-month-old baby girl suffered serious injuries following an incident in their street.

One man said he had heard a man and woman shouting before doors were banged and then he heard a woman scream.

“I heard that a baby had been hurt,’’ he said.

Police Scotland is investigating the incident that took place in Dundee’s Kerrsview Terrace on Sunday.

A police spokesman said that a baby had sustained serious but unexplained injuries.

She is in a serious but stable condition in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.

Police (inset) were today keeping guard over a flat in Kerrsview Terrace.

One woman, who didn’t want to be named, said she was shocked to learn that a baby had been injured.

The woman said: ‘‘This is a horrible and scary thing to have happened.

“I don’t know the details, but I do know who the couple are who are the parents.

“The police have kept a presence outside the flat where the baby was taken from ever since.

“I really hope the baby is all right. ‘‘This doesn’t bear thinking about.” Another man who lives nearby said he had heard that a baby had been taken away in an ambulance after an incident.

A spokesman for Police Scotland said the child sustained serious injuries that are as yet unexplained. Detective Inspector Ray Birnie, of Tayside Division’s Public Protection Unit, said: “Police Scotland received a report that a 10-month-old child had sustained serious injuries in a property in Kerrsview Terrace around lunchtime on April 1.

“The child remains in a serious but stable condition in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.

“Inquiries into this incident are at an early stage.

‘We are conducting these in partnership with Dundee City Council social work department and the NHS.

“There will be ongoing police activity at the address in the days ahead.

“I would like to thank the local community for their patience while we deal with this incident.

“I would also ask that if anyone has any information that could assist us, then to please come forward.”

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