The woman, who can't be named in order to protect the identity of a child witness, changed her plea to guilty on what was the fourth day of her trial.
A woman has admitted murdering her 4-year-old stepson.
The woman, who can't be named in order to protect the identity of a child witness, changed her plea to guilty on what was the fourth day of her trial.
At the outset of the trial, the woman pleaded not guilty to the boy’s murder, but guilty of his manslaughter.
Harrowing evidence was presented in relation to the extent of the boy’s injuries, as observed when paramedics called to the house, and later by hospital staff.
Doctors and nurses gasped when they saw the number of bruises.
They were over both eyes, both ears, chest, back, arms, left leg and inside his thighs.
He underwent brain surgery but it wasn’t a success and he later died in hospital.
A pathologist told the jury yesterday that his injuries were not consistent with a fall from a top bunk, as initially claimed by the boy’s father.
Dr Heidi Okkers said they were more in line with someone shaking the child and forcefully striking his head against something hard like a wall or floor.
Today, on Day 4 of the trial, the woman changed her plea to guilty - and she will be handed a life sentence in due course.
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