danielle liddle, 22, was beaten with baseball bats and slashed in the face with a butcher's knife while she was giving birth  a pregnant woman was beaten with baseball bats and slashed in the face with a butcher's knife when a masked gang burst into her home while she was giving birth danielle liddle, 22, was about to leave for hospital when five masked men smashed their way into her house in basildon, essex, at around 830pm using crowbars she  suffered a 'serious head injury'  and may have a fractured skull  after the gang attacked her with crowbars and a knife  while her two year old child was asleep in bed her partner chris miller, 33, who was upstairs collecting the hospital bag, came running  to protect her and said the young mother is now too traumatised to go back into the house the mother of two was rushed to basildon hospital and gave birth to a healthy baby boy on tuesday despite her injuries her partner, who suffered minor injuries in the attack, said: 'this was an extremely traumatic experience for us both my girlfriend remains in hospital with a serious head injury when she should be celebrating the birth of our child 'please help the police to catch these men whose actions have tainted a period of time which should be a happy one for us' he told how he had gone upstairs to collect essentials for the hospital after his partner's contractions started coming every six minutes 'the next thing i heard a loud smash   like a fish tank shattering,' he said 'before we knew it we had five men in the house screaming 'give us your money' they cornered my partner then hit her with a crowbar and bats and cut her across the face screaming and demanding more money i just threw my arms round her to protect her they carried on beating us i was just shouting back at them, 'you are wrong man, she is in labour 'me and my girlfriend just started screaming and shouting for help' the men grabbed the couple's ipad, a sony experia mobile phone and £60 in cash  and then ran off the young mother suffered a fractured skull after the masked gang attacked her in her home  in beambridge (pictured), essex  the 22 year old was rushed to basildon hospital (pictured) and gave birth to a healthy baby on tuesday  police are now hunting the five men, all ages in their twenties with local accents, who broke into the home in beambridge, pitsea, on monday night three of the men wore balaclavas and dark clothes, a fourth gang member was white and the fifth was mixed race mr miller said: 'i can't even describe to you how angry i am my partner is too traumatised to even go back to our home she is going to need counselling to help her get through this to do this to a woman who is in labour   it's sick' her sister said: 'they attacked her with crowbars, baseball bats and cut her face with a butchers knife 'she was screaming for them to stop as she was in labour but this did not stop them luckily my two year old nephew was asleep upstairs and slept through it 'my sister has had her face stitched but now discovered she may have a fractured skull' detective inspector joel henderson, from basildon cid, said: 'this was a shocking attack on a young woman who was in labour it is vital we get those people responsible off the streets of basildon' anyone with information can call basildon cid on 101 a gofundme account has been set up my mother of two joanne ahrens, who is aiming to raise enough money so the young couple can rent a new house and install a good security system to donate, please visit the page here
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danielle liddle, 22, was beaten with baseball bats while giving birth  gang of five men broke into her home in essex and demanded money  they attacked 22 year old while her partner chris miller was upstairs  she suffered a 'serious head injury' and may have fractured her skull  young mother gave birth to a baby boy on tuesday despite injuries  police are now hunting five men, aged in the twenties, involved in attack  gofundme page has been set up to raise money for young couple 