A mother of Calgary found guilty of having attacked her two -year -old daughter, causing fractures, and leaving the child with unrealized burns made her appeal reject.
The mother, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was found guilty of serious assault and not to provide the necessities of life. She appealed to assault convictions.
The Alberta Court of Appeal heard that the girl had been taken to a clinic for an independent issue in July 2017, when a doctor noticed serious unrealized burns. It was referred to a visual surgeon, but the mother did not take it.
The child was not seen by another doctor until she was admitted to the hospital a month later with a broken femur who needed surgery and a fractured basin bone.
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The defense argued that the child burned two months ago by passing his hands under smoking hot water. The mother said the daughter was born with a brain injury and could not feel pain.
The woman also said that the child had broken the leg and the pool after accidentally dropping the stairs.
At the trial, judge David Labrenz accepted evidence of experts suggesting that hand injuries were in accordance with unrealized deep immersion burns and that the broken bone would have required a force that does not align with the fall of the stairs.
He decided that the mother was deliberately lined up and had made an effort to hide injuries, including the creation of a false story that her daughter could not feel in pain. The hospital staff confirmed that the child cried when she moved or was transferred from a stretcher.
The defense appeal was based on the inference of the judge that the woman hid for her guilt. His lawyer argued that the judge had not taken into account factors such as injuries caused by another person.
The judges of the Court of Appeal judged that there was enough evidence to declare the guilty woman.
“We are convinced (the judge) that the injuries were intentionally inflicted by the appellant does not reveal any revisable error,” the court wrote in a decision published on Wednesday. “The appeal is rejected.”
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