Melbourne woman avoids jail for killing baby by laying her on railway tracks

Melissa Arbuckle pleaded guilty to infanticide over daughter's death and was released on adjourned undertaking for three years

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A Melbourne mother who was suffering severe postpartum depression when she killed her three-month-old daughter by placing her in front of a train has been spared jail.

Melissa Arbuckle, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of infanticide over her daughter Lily's death at a train station in Upwey, in Melbourne's east, on 11 July last year.