A mother and her boyfriend sexually assaulted and broke 21 bones in her two-year-old daughter’s body during a ‘campaign of violence’ which led to her death, a court heard today.
Isabelle Rose Welsh had been ‘violently assaulted’ for weeks in the run-up to her death in September last year and was killed by a final ‘massive head injury’ inflicted upon her, Teesside Crown Court was told.
Her mother, Alexandra Walker, 25, and her boyfriend, Harrison Simpson, 21, are on trial accused of the murder of Isabelle, causing or allowing the death of a child, assault by penetration of a child under 13
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