Midwife guilty of putting newborn baby face-down in a cupboard

Midwife Yvonne Musonda-Malata left a four-day-old baby face-down in a cupboard.

A midwife has been found guilty of putting a newborn baby face-down in a cupboard in Essex. 

Yvonne Musonda-Malata, 25, had denied the claims and constantly protested her innocence throughout the tribunal hearing.
But she was found guilty of failing to provide the appropriate clinical care to the four-day old baby during a night shift at Queen’s Hospital in 2011.
Nursery nurse Alex Curtis found the baby when she went to get an envelope from the cupboard, the tribunal heard.
‘I did not put the baby in the cupboard at all. At all. I did not,’ Ms Musonda-Malata had told the panel.
Her colleague, Christine Onade, has been cleared of all charges against her. It was alleged she had been spotted taking the baby out of the cupboard.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council said Ms Musonda-Malata will have to appear again tomorrow, when the panel will to decide whether she will be punished over the incident.