A Perth baby boy is dead, nearly a year after he was allegedly assaulted as a newborn, with homicide detectives investigating.
In a brief statement on Monday night, police said officers attended the one-year-old's death at a home in Golden Bay on September 30.
According to police, the boy was assaulted at Narrogin when he was six weeks old.
He was taken to Narrogin Regional Hospital on October 9 last year before being transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital and was later released.
A 25-year-old Mandurah man known to the child was charged over that assault with aggravated grievous bodily harm in March.
The investigation into the boy's death is ongoing.
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