Queensland police announced Sunday the arrest of a 22-year-old man charged with murder and torture in the death of a four-month-old baby boy in Bundaberg West. The child had been taken to hospital on 26 February 2024 and died on 3 March, triggering a specialist investigation by child protection and crime intelligence units. The accused, now from Kalkie, is expected to appear in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday, police said.

In Spain, a judge in Sabadell, Catalonia, ordered the provisional imprisonment of both parents of a three-month-old baby who died on Friday at Parc Taulí Hospital. Health authorities said the infant was revived for 40 minutes by emergency services after the parents called 112 reporting the baby was not breathing, but died from injuries consistent with violent shaking. Medical staff activated child-protection protocols after observing symptoms that investigators link to shaken-baby syndrome. The parents, who had relocated from Zaragoza two months earlier, answered only some questions from their lawyers; the judge charged them with habitual mistreatment resulting in death, according to local judicial sources.

In Colombia’s Norte de Santander department, a 10-month-old boy, Jacobo, was killed during a robbery on the night of 27 June in the La Laguna neighbourhood of Cúcuta. His father, 39, was wounded and remains under medical care. Police assigned a special criminal investigation unit and offered a reward of up to 10 million Colombian pesos for information leading to arrests, an official statement said.

In the northern Italian town of Moglia, near Mantua, a 59-year-old grandmother died of natural causes—believed to be cardiac arrest—while alone in an apartment with her baby granddaughter, reported by various outlets as six, seven, or eight months old. Neighbours heard the child crying for hours and, after ringing the doorbell and phoning the woman without response, called emergency services. Firefighters entered the fourth-floor apartment through a window and found the infant alive beside the deceased, who had died at least six hours earlier, authorities said. The baby was taken to hospital as a precaution and later reunited with her mother.

In regional Western Australia, the parents of eight-month-old Willow Katarina Horne are seeking a coronial inquest after a clinical review by WA Country Health Service could not determine a cause of her death at Kalgoorlie Health Campus in September 2025. The review panel, led by a paediatric intensive care specialist, suggested viral myocarditis as a likely but undiagnosed cause, while noting high fatality in young children. Its report identified shortfalls including insufficient consideration of alternative diagnoses and limited situational awareness across teams. WA ministers have expressed support for an inquest.