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Ruby Rose Says She Was Questioned Over Child's Death at 15

She frames the episode as a source of lifelong trauma after the child's brother recovered a memory that led police to clear her.

Overview

  • The disclosure came during Ruby Rose's first podcast interview on Off the Vine, which aired Tuesday, and brought renewed attention to a decades-old episode she has rarely discussed publicly.
  • Rose says that at 15 she and a friend found a badly injured child at a party, that adults performed CPR and the child was later taken to hospital and died.
  • She recounts that police questioned her at school and classmates taunted her as a 'baby killer,' leaving lasting social and emotional damage.
  • Rose says the case was resolved when the child's older brother recovered a repressed memory that he had caused the injury and reported it to police, after which she was cleared.
  • Contemporary reports rely on Rose's podcast account, note inconsistent details across outlets about the child's age, and do not cite independent police or court records to confirm the episode.