The newborn’s cause of death has been made public after it was allegedly abandoned by a six-year-old who was left to wander a French maternity department.

With a catastrophic brain injury, five-day-old Baby Zayneb-Cassandra was discovered unconscious on the floor next to her crib at the Jeanne-de-Flandre Children’s Hospital in Lille, France, on Friday, July 11. She passed away on Tuesday as a result of her injuries

The baby died from trauma “consistent with a fall to the floor,” according to confirmation from Lille’s prosecutor’s office on Friday.

Although her official cause of death has not been revealed, it is thought that a youngster who was discovered standing on a chair next to her took the small infant from her cot and dropped her to the ground.

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“A six-year-old child, a member of another family, was indeed seen near the crib and the child on the floor,” prosecutors also confirmed.

Witnesses have stated that the six-year-old kid was let to wander the wards unsupervised, and police have opened a criminal investigation into the horror that occurred at the Rainbow ward last week.

Delphine, a young woman who had just given birth herself, heard what she described as a ‘loud bang’ and hurried into the room to find the boy and the baby.

Born six weeks early by caesarean section to parents Mohamed-Hamza and Sephora, baby Zayneb spent the weekend on life support and underwent two rounds of resuscitation before passing away this week.

The boy in issue had been unruly for days and was not being watched over because his mother was also recuperating from childbirth, Delphine subsequently told Le Parisien.

He was running around everywhere and had already touched a baby in a stroller,” Delphine said.

Zayneb’s distraught father’s cousin Karima asserted that hospital personnel had been “warned” of the boy’s “abnormal behaviour.”