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Australian Authorities Arrest Influential Home-Birth Midwife Over Neonatal Death
Oyebola Coxon faces manslaughter and reckless grievous bodily harm charges for allegedly ignoring complication signs and hospital requests, leading to a baby's death after emergency cesarean, police said.
- On the morning of Thursday, August 14, 36-year-old midwife Oyebola Coxon was taken into custody at Newcastle Police Station and formally accused of manslaughter along with causing reckless grievous bodily harm.
- The charges relate to a homebirth Coxon attended on October 2 last year in Wallsend where police allege she ignored signs of complications and the woman’s requests to seek hospital care.
- On October 4, the mother was admitted to John Hunter Hospital, where the baby was born via emergency caesarean section but sadly passed away a little over a week later, on October 10.
- Coxon was granted conditional bail on Thursday afternoon requiring her to surrender her passports, report daily to Nelson Bay Police, not practice midwifery, and avoid a Wallsend address within 100 metres.
- Police formed Strike Force Girona to investigate the matter, with the case set to be heard again at Newcastle Local Court in October as legal processes continue.
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Oyebola "Bibi" Coxon, 35 years old, the midwife from Mantua who became a home delivery guru and a social star with the name of Enrica Kupe and the nickname of "obstetrician without filters," was arrested in Australia on the charge of manslaughter. The story, reported by the Australian television network 7News, is linked to the death of a newborn following a birth in the house that she assisted. To report the first news of the arrest in Italy was…
Graduated in Parma, she lived in Australia for years, followed by social media. The news relaunched in Italy by writer Francesca Bubba, author of surveys on her
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