Pop battle baby in care unit.

     A boy born after his mother, was, she claimed, "kneed in the stomach"by a policeman during the battles in Windsor Great Park was last night in an emergency care unit in a London hospital. The baby was rushed to the Hammersmith Hospital from the Ascot Hospital, where he was born only hours after his 28 year-old mother, Ms Marjorie Morris ,who was knocked unconscious while police were breaking up the free pop festival in the park, had been admitted. A second woman, Maggie Clark, aged 21, of Kent, who is five months pregnant, was also being treated at Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, yesterday. She claimed she had been hit in the stomach by "a truncheon or another hard object" after being attacked from behind by a policeman. "Luckily my baby, is all right" she said. Ms Morris, was under heavy sedation yesterday but was said by the hospital to be satisfactory. When she was admitted to the hospital, she told the staff that she had been kneed by a police officer. She was taken to a general ward, but was transferred to the maternity unit after complications developed. Rumours that she had miscarried, and even that she was dead, swept through the young people outside the court in Windsor and on the new riverside camp site. Many claimed to have seen her being attacked by police officers, and one young man was collecting eye-witness accounts. There was some confusion over her identity, because at least one other pregnant woman had been involved in the clashes. Heatherwood Hospital said it had treated other injured people - most of them for minor injuries -that could have been caused by kicks or blows, or by missiles, such as broken bottles or tins.

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