Baby dies after alcoholic mum passes out on top of her

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A mum passed out while under the influence of alcohol only to wake up to discover her baby died.

Claire Ross, 39, had struggled with severe mental illness which only drove her crippling alcohol addiction, a court heard. After the tragic death of her first baby, her case was not referred to social services until the same thing happened to another one of her children.

The double tragedy happened shortly after she moved from Merseyside to Nyon, Switzerland, in 2018. However, her alcoholism had already caused issues before she moved.

In 2017, her three-year-old eldest daughter was put at severe risk when Ross drove down the M62 while four and a half times over the legal limit. Ross, from St Helens, moved to Switzerland with her husband, Ian Ross, and their eldest child in 2017, the Liverpool Echo reports.

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Later that year, her second daughter, aged just two months, tragically died. However, social services did nothing even after her third daughter's birth in February 2020.

In July 2020, Ross passed out drunk on top of the now five-month-old girl. The eldest child, now six, walked in on the horrific scene, leading to Ross being charged with negligent homicide.

However, a tribunal of judges at the Criminal Court of La Côte said she was "released from the sanction of negligent homicide" because she was suffering from severe mental illness. The tribunal ordered her to undergo compulsory treatment after the tribunal president Patricia Cornaz declared Ross was suffering from a personality disorder and "borderline traits" that meant she had no control over her "binge drinking"

During the trial her solicitor, Patrick