Baby S Suffered 33 Wounds From 15 Sta@bbings — Mother Among Four Charged as Police Reconstruct Her Final Hours
A newborn girl known only as Baby S has become the centre of one of the most distressing criminal cases to reach the courts in Sheffield this year. According to charges now before the courts, the infant was found dead at a property on Holywell Heights in the Wincobank area on Sunday 30 August 2026, after police were called over concern for a baby’s safety.
Prosecutors have told magistrates that Baby S suffered 33 wounds caused by 15 separate stabbings, including injuries to the face and to the torso, front and back. A forensic post-mortem concluded that she died from stab wounds. A doctor’s assessment presented in court was that she was alive when the attack took place. Those details, released in open court, have driven public shock because they describe harm inflicted on a child who had been born only hours earlier.
Four adults have been charged with murder, causing or allowing the death of a child, and perverting the course of justice by taking steps said to conceal the killing. They are Andrea Skopova, 20, identified in court as the baby’s mother; Peter Horvath Jnr, 19, described as her boyfriend; and his parents, Peter Horvath Snr, 38, and Nina Horvathova, 37. All four are Slovakian nationals. A 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named because of her age, has been charged only with perverting the course of justice. The adults have been remanded in custody. A trial has been fixed for 12 April 2027 and is expected to last six to seven weeks. Two other women arrested on suspicion of murder remain on bail.
The court outline of events is tightly framed. Baby S was said to have been born in the early hours of 30 August at about 37 weeks at the Holywell Heights address. Skopova later went to hospital. Staff raised concern about an infant who was not with her. Officers first checked another address linked to her, then the Wincobank house. There, the court was told, they found the baby wrapped in a towel inside a blue bag on top of a washing machine in an outhouse. The father has not been identified in court; Peter Horvath Jnr is not believed to be the father.
That sequence leaves a short, still-unexplained window: birth, the alleged attack, movement of the body to the outbuilding, and the later hospital attendance that triggered the police call. Investigators are now working through forensic material, CCTV and other records to reconstruct those hours and what happened after the fatal injuries. Additional charges alleging that the scene was cleaned show that concealment, not only the killing itself, is part of the case the prosecution intends to prove.
Neighbours have left flowers and toys outside the house. Detectives have described the inquiry as complex and asked the public not to prejudice active proceedings. That warning matters. Social media commentary can cross the line into contempt when a trial date is already set.
The legal questions that will dominate 2027 are stark. Who inflicted the wounds? Who knew, and when? What, if anything, was done to hide the infant afterwards? Until a jury answers those questions, Baby S remains both a named victim in court papers and a child whose last hours are still being pieced together from blood, cameras and the statements of the people now held in custody.
