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'Put your dead baby in the fridge': What nurse told mother who suffered miscarriage

She had just endured the trauma of a miscarriage.

But when Sophie Hill phoned her hospital with her dead child next to her, she was simply told to put it in the fridge for two days until her scheduled appointment.

Confused and in shock, Miss Hill followed the nurse's instructions and stored the foetus in a Tupperware box in her fridge so it could be kept cool for testing.

Last night, as hospital bosses investigated, Miss Hill said she had been 'betrayed by the NHS' and her father called for the nurse who gave the advice to be suspended.

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Mother who put dead fetus in fridge on trial
Lubbock woman charged with child endangerment, injury to a child.

Gloria Ramirez was four months pregnant when she delivered a stillborn fetus inside a filthy, rat-infested home and placed it in a baby wipe box in the refrigerator.

Authorities came to the home that same day in July 2007 after she or her husband Anthony Moya, 42, called a funeral home to ask about a casket.

Seven children lived in the squalid home. Investigators found dirty diapers stacked nearly 4 feet high in closets throughout the house, which was infested with rats, roaches and lice, according to documents.

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