A six-week-old baby was today in a hospital's intensive care unit with serious head injuries.
An Essex Police spokesman said the baby was in a serious but stable condition at Basildon Hospital.
A Laindon couple, both in their twenties, were being questioned by detectives from Essex Police's child protection unit in Rayleigh.
They were arrested yesterday afternoon.
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