A absolute horrific case of child abuse/murder A mother who took selfies with the battered 11-month-old son she had beaten, causing him to suffer brain damage which later caused his death, was jailed for 14 years today. Emma Wilson repeatedly hit baby Callum so violently her neighbour’s ceiling shook. She then blamed the attack on his two-year-old brother, the Old Bailey heard. The court heard that Callum suffered a catalogue of abuse at the hands of his mother in the weeks before his death, during which she took ‘before’ and ‘after’ photographs of herself with him. A post mortem revealed the 11-month-old had suffered fatal brain damage, as well as nine fractured ribs, a broken leg and arm. The court heard how Wilson posed for ‘selfie’ photographs of her and her son before and after the abuse. The latter pictures show her grinning next to her crying son, whose face shows obvious injuries. Another showed the 11-month-old moving away from a young boy wielding a pair of open secateurs. But in a bid to offer an explanation Wilson blamed the attack on her other child, claiming Callum’s ‘boisterous’ and ‘rough’ two-year-old brother was to blame. She said the boy was jealous of his younger sibling. In a gruesome twist, the 25-year-old, who had told people Callum was her cousin’s son, had his battered body buried in an unmarked communal grave. A jury at the Old Bailey took 10 hours to find Wilson guilty of murder by a unanimous verdict.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:37:26 +0000
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