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Doreen BAIRD

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

   
 
 
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics: Juvenile (14) - Baby-sitter
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: July 14, 1958
Date of arrest: Same day
Date of birth: 1944
Victim profile: June Croft, 16-month-old
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Status: Found guilty of manslaughter and sent to approved school on November 27, 1958
 
 
 
 
 
 

Doreen Baird

Doreen Baird, a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl, was baby-sitting five children. One of the children, sixteen-month-old June Croft, was crying more than the others. Baird tied a scarf around the child's neck to try and stop her crying and, not surprisingly, the child died of strangulation.

At Baird's trial at Sheffield Assizes she pleaded diminished responsibility and medical evidence described her as emotionally immature and of low intellect. On 27th November 1958 she was found guilty of manslaughter and sent to approved school.

Murder-uk.com

 
 

Baird, Doreen

This was the very sad story of a child murdering another child. Of course murder at any time is a serious and upsetting business, When children are the victims it is dreadful to see such waste of young life. When the murder is actually committed by a child it is hard for anyone to understand.

Doreen Baird was a 14-year-old schoolgirl who was baby-sitting five children. One of the children, 16-month-old June Croft, was crying more than the others and it began to annoy Doreen so she tied a scarf around the child's neck to try and stop her crying. The child died a little while later of strangulation.

At her trial at Sheffield Assizes she pleaded diminished responsibility and medical evidence described her as emotionally immature and of low intellect. On 27 November 1958 she was found guilty of manslaughter and sent to an approved school.

GreggManning.scstamps.co.uk

 

 

 
 
 
 
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