A woman charged with murdering her baby and attempting to murder her toddler, has denied she stabbed them 'out of spite and malice' against her partner.
A woman charged with murdering her baby and attempting to murder her toddler, has denied she stabbed them "out of spite and malice" against her partner.She accepts she stabbed her children in 2021 but denies the charges. She cannot be named to protect the identity of her surviving child.
A prosecution barrister put to her that she had told a psychiatrist: "He destroyed my life so I destroyed his".The barrister continued: "I put it to you that you killed your child and tried to kill the other out of spite and malice to your partner."While giving earlier evidence, the woman told the court that her eight-week-old son "started crying" after she stabbed him.
She said she wasn't sure if he was alive or dead but "pressed him gently" on his chest to "help him breathe".The woman said her daughter did not see what she had done to her baby brother and was watching cartoons on YouTube.She said: "I held her in my arms and apologised to her. I'm sorry for what I did.The woman told the court she then injured herself with the same knife.But she said she stopped hurting herself after hearing her daughter call: "Mummy.
When asked why she did what she did, the woman said: "I didn't find any other way to escape him and take my children away from him."I always forgave him for everything he did to me. I was fighting for [my daughter] and the baby to be a family.The woman told the court that during a holiday to visit her aunt, her partner "sexually abused" her while she was in bed with her daughter.
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