A mom accused of murdering her three-year-old son has claimed she used a bamboo cane to beat him as a result of the Bible instructed her she might “chastise her child”, a courtroom has heard.
Christina Robinson, 30, known as the emergency companies to her residence in Bracken Court, Durham, in November 2022 and claimed Dwelaniyah had gone limp whereas consuming a cheese bun.
But Richard Wright KC, prosecuting, instructed Newcastle Crown Court the boy had suffered a severe, deadly head harm after being shaken violently by his mom.
The prosecution mentioned the kid’s legs had been closely bandaged, hiding burns which lined as much as 20% of his physique and would have precipitated excruciating ache for a number of weeks previous to his loss of life, having been forcibly and intentionally scalded within the tub.
Jurors had been proven paramedics’ body-worn footage as they tried to save lots of the boy on the home, the place Robinson mentioned the teenager had damage himself within the bathe however she had not thought he wanted hospital remedy.
Neighbours heard whimpering at evening however didn’t know the supply of the sound, the prosecution mentioned.
Dwelaniyah, whose coronary heart had stopped beating, was taken to hospital however couldn’t be saved.
Bruises on his physique confirmed he had been hit by a cylindrical object and checks on a bamboo cane present in the home confirmed traces of his blood and pores and skin, the courtroom heard.
Mr Wright instructed jurors: “The defendant admits that she hit him with a weapon but says that she was allowed to do so because the Bible tells her that she should chastise her child.”
A autopsy revealed he had been the sufferer of a sequence of assaults and had sustained a number of non-accidental accidents, the jury was instructed.
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The prosecutor mentioned: “The defendant now asserts that beating a child with a cane so that she drew blood was consistent with her being an adherent of the teachings of the Bible.”
Robinson denies murdering Dwelaniyah and baby cruelty.
The case was adjourned to Wednesday.
Source: information.sky.com”