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A foul smell wafts from bags of dirty nappies and piles of rubbish at a house where a nine-month-old baby was found dead.
Police found the 'unresponsive' infant inside the home at Doonside in Sydney's west on Monday at about 10am after responding to a concern for welfare call. The child couldn't be revived.
Officers cordoned off the area as detectives spoke with the baby's parents.
On Tuesday Daily Mail Australia was met with a horrendous odour wafting from the home, with nappies on the footpath and overflowing bins dumped on top of a shopping trolley.
The yard is strewn with beer bottles, rubbish and broken toys.
Garbage spills out the front door on to the verandah of the house, from where the baby was carried out by paramedics the previous day.
Rubbish and bags of dirty nappies spill out of the squalid house where a nine-month-old baby was found dead on Monday
A dirty nappy sits atop a shopping trolley stuffed with bags of rubbish and a child's scooter outside the Doonside home
Neighbours said they believed the dead child was a baby boy.
The couple, believed to be in their late 20s or early 30s, were taken to Blacktown police station for questioning.
