Mother in Chatsworth's Baby X case to be sentenced
Sentencing proceedings are due to get underway in the harrowing case of Baby X, the 3-year-old Chatsworth girl who was tortured and starved before her death in her Havenside home.
Her 35-year-old mother was yesterday found guilty of her 2014 murder. In total, the woman and her mother who died in custody earlier this year faced 17 charges involving three of her four children.
She was found guilty of eleven of the charges and was acquitted of three
Judge Mohini Moodley spoke at length in her judgement about the abuse three of the woman's children endured at the hands of their grandmother and mother.
Moodley also found the children were forced to beg on the streets. The woman was found guilty of child abuse, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and were chastised exceeding boundaries.
The woman was found guilty of child abuse, assault with intent to do grievance bodily harm and failure to provide medical care for baby X's brother referred to as child D in court.
For the charges relating to their sister, the woman was acquitted on three charges and only convicted of child abuse. Baby X's siblings remain in a place of safety.
In a second case, involving the child's brother, the woman was acquitted of three charges and only convicted of child abuse.