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Woman arrested after body of newborn found in bin

The West Australian Sarah Spina-Matthews

17 Sept 2026 19:46 AEST Summary

From the report

The woman believed to be the mother of a newborn baby who had been left in a rubbish bin last month has been arrested.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 4.1 mundaneloaded

None in this text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

arrested2bin2newborn2woman2

Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 63.6 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

Measurements of how this article is written, not of whether it is correct. How each one is measured.

Measured on The West Australian’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

The West Australian Woman arrested after body of newborn found in bin plain
ABC News Woman arrested after baby found dead in Sydney bin plain
The Age Mother charged after newborn found dead in Sydney rubbish bin plain
The Age Woman believed to be mother of dumped baby found plain

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
The West Australianas they published this story	4.1	0	42	0	63.6
ABC News	11.3	1	78	-0.2	41.2

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The same event elsewhere

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ABC News Woman arrested after baby found dead in Sydney bin Niral 11.3 political 0 The Age Mother charged after newborn found dead in Sydney rubbish bin Niral 4.2 political 0 The Age Woman believed to be mother of dumped baby found Niral 4.1 political 0 Brisbane Times Mother charged after newborn found dead in Sydney rubbish bin Niral 4.2 political 0 Brisbane Times Woman believed to be mother of dumped baby found Niral 4.1 political 0 WAtoday Mother charged after newborn found dead in Sydney rubbish bin Niral 4.2 political 0 WAtoday Woman believed to be mother of dumped baby found Niral 4.1 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Mother charged after newborn found dead in Sydney rubbish bin Niral 4.2 political 0