She admitted caning the three-year-old boy for religious reasons but denied killing him.
A woman has been found guilty of murdering her three-year-old son who she had severely scalded and caned.
Christina Robinson, 30, had denied murder and child cruelty but was found guilty after a 17-day trial at Newcastle Crown Court.Prosecutors said Dwelaniyah, who had more than 60 injuries, was regularly and "violently" punished by his mother, including being forced into scalding hot water 18 days before he died.She said she was following the Bible-based teachings of her religion, the Black Hebrew Israelites, which preached using a rod to correct a child.
These covered the inflicting of the burns, failure to get medical help, striking him with a cane and abandoning him, the court having heard she would regularly leave the boy home alone while she went out to run errands or get her nails done.
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