Mother pleads GUILTY to murdering her baby girl after her partner left her alone to have a shower and returned to find the bub 'unresponsive' Cassandra Rose Doohan was 18 at the when her four-month-old daughter died Her baby Anastasia was found unresponsive, while her partner was in the shower He had asked Doohan to look after her, while he was in the shower for 15 minutes Anastasia suffered catastrophic brain injuries and died in hospital after two days Doohan pleaded guilty to murdering her four-month-old at the Supreme Court
By Paula Ahillon For Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press
Published: 06:07 BST, 23 May 2019 | Updated: 06:43 BST, 23 May 2019
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A young mother has pleaded guilty to murdering her four-month-old baby daughter in their Western Australian home.
Cassandra Rose Doohan was 18 when her daughter Anastasia Hand was found unresponsive by her partner, while he was in the shower for 15 minutes on May 2017.
The baby, who suffered catastrophic brain injuries, was taken to Bunbury Regional Hospital and transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth where she died two
