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Published 15:57 14 Dec 2021 GMT
Updated 09:07 15 Dec 2021 GMT
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Savannah Brockhill, left, and Star's mother, Frankie Smith[/caption]
Bradford Crown Court court earlier heard how Star had suffered major blood loss after the main vein carrying blood back to her heart from her legs and organs of the abdomen had been torn. She had also suffered a split to the liver, a tear to the fatty attachments of the bowel, and bruising to the lower part of the lungs and the pancreas.
Prosecutor Alistair MacDonald QC said the injuries had been caused by a severe and forceful blow or blows, “either in the form of punching, stamping or kicking to the abdomen”.
He said: “The effect of such injuries was immediate and heavy bleeding into the abdominal cavity, which caused a catastrophic drop in blood pressure and unconsciousness and death within seconds to minutes."
MacDonald said the assault, or assaults, that killed Star "clearly involved the use of severe force and were obviously intentional".
"This little girl suffered no accidental death," he told the court.
MacDonald told the court that Star had been killed by the "intentional infliction of injury and that the person or persons who inflicted these injuries intended, at the very least, to cause really serious harm to a helpless young child and that, in those circumstances, they are guilty of murder".
The prosecutor said a pathologist had found the blows were delivered to Star with a "severe degree of force that is wholly incompatible with normal handling of a child of 16 months".
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After injuring Star, Brockhill and Smith searched online for "shock in babies" and waited 15 minutes before calling for help.[/caption]
Medics arrived at the couple's flat at around 3.49 pm on September 22 and found Star lifeless, pale, and wearing only a disposable nappy.
Star was in cardiac arrest and as they attempted CPR, she vomited "large amounts" of brown material, and a suction device was used to remove it, the court heard.
She was rushed to Airedale hospital – just six minutes away - where clinicians did everything they could to save her but she was pronounced dead that afternoon.
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