A Western Australia police constable, Nickolas Wayne Peake, is sentenced after admitting he shook his five-week-old baby daughter when she would not settle. In court, Peake is described as having “lost it” and as telling the baby to “shut up” during the incident, which occurred while she was crying.
Sources report the court hears Peake shook the baby three times. The outlets also note he was sleep-deprived at the time and had been struggling to get the newborn to settle. Peake, 30, avoids jail and is instead given a community-based order.
While the coverage agrees on the central facts—his admission, the shaking, the baby’s age, and the sentence—each outlet frames the situation slightly differently, emphasizing either his loss of control, the sleep-deprivation context, or the fact his police role is a matter of concern in the aftermath.
