Unbelievable! Woman Causes Outrage After She Stamped Her Own Baby Daughter to Death (Photos)

 

 

Kathryn Smith, the mum of tragic toddler, Ayeeshia Smith has been found guilty of murdering her after inflicting 'car crash' injuries by stamping on her chest.

 

Ayeeshia was heard saying 'stop mummy, stop daddy' by neighbours just days before she was found dead and a post-mortem found she had suffered a string of harrowing injuries.

 

Her mum Kathryn Smith, 23, was found guilty of murder and child cruelty having denied all charges against her at Birmingham Crown Court.

 

Ayeeshia's stepdad Matthew Rigby, 22, was found guilty causing or allowing the death of the 21-month-old girl. But Rigby was cleared of murder and child cruelty.

 

Smith sobbed and shook her head as she convicted at Birmingham Crown Court.

 

The "happy and smiley" toddler died in hospital in May 2014 after sustaining a tear to her heart following a huge blow to her chest.

  

 

Experts described her injuries as being similar to those suffered in a car crash or a fall from a building several stories high.

 

Derbyshire County Council took Ayeeshia into care but returned her to Smith and Rigby six months before she died.

 

Just three weeks before her death, Derbyshire social services had discussed taking the youngster into care once again. The tot was struck with such force in Rigby's flat in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, that she bit through her own tongue.

 

The court was shown evidence of bruising to her neck which a consultant paediatrician said would be associated "with a gripping or grasping" of the child's throat.

 

After Ayeeshia's death, a post-mortem examination revealed an old bleed on the brain and damage to the spine among other injuries which expert Dr Kathryn Ward said could have been caused "if a child is grasped and shaken".