Shane Su­perville

An 11-month-old boy has died af­ter he re­port­ed­ly suf­fo­cat­ed on vom­it at his fam­i­ly's Cu­mu­to home on Sun­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the ba­by's moth­er fed him a bot­tle at around 3.45 am and put him to sleep.

She awoke at around 5.30 am and on check­ing on him, no­ticed he had vom­it sur­round­ing his mouth with his com­forter still in his mouth.

The woman re­moved the com­forter and no­ticed even more vom­it in the child's mouth and re­alised he was breath­ing ir­reg­u­lar­ly.

An am­bu­lance was called in which took the ba­by to the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty where he was de­clared dead at 7.08 am that morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the ba­by had a his­to­ry of sev­er­al falls and was ward­ed at the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty in the past.

Po­lice from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion II are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.