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NEWCASTLE Crown Court this week heard evidence that the toddler—Dwelaniyah Robinson—died after his mother, Christina Robinson, had laid into him with a bamboo came and violently shook him.

According to this report, Christina Robinson, 30, stands accused of murdering the boy.

She admitted hitting him with the cane but says she was allowed to because the Bible told her “she should chastise her child.”

The child was found to have had numerous other injuries, including scalding.

A post-mortem examination after his death in November 2022, showed he had tramline bruising on his body.

Richard Wright KC told jurors:

In this case the little boy had been repeatedly beaten with a bamboo cane by his mother. A cane stained with his blood and with his body tissue attached to it was recovered from the family home.

The boy died from a head injury after he was violently shaken while in the sole care of his mother.

When the emergency services attended the property they found that the boy was heavily bandaged on his legs.

Wright added:

The defendant admits that she hit him with a weapon but says that she was allowed to do so because the Bible tells her that she should chastise her child.

Robinson had contacted the emergency services by ringing 112 and told the call handler her son was not breathing and his eyes had gone “all weird”.

When paramedics arrived she claimed he had been eating a cheese bun when he suddenly went limp and collapsed.

She explained that Dwelaniyah was bandaged because he had burned himself “while messing about in the shower” weeks earlier.

She explained she had not taken him to hospital because the burns had caused him no problems and she was able to treat him at home, the court heard.working on her son at the house quickly wanted him to be transferred to hospital as his heart had stopped.

Further attempts were made at hospital but he could not be saved.

A post-mortem examination revealed he had been the victim of a series of assaults and had sustained a number of non-accidental injuries, the jury was told.

Wright said:

In other words, somebody had been deliberately hurting this little boy and had been doing so over a period of time. That person was his mother, the defendant Christina Robinson.

Wright said the burns on his legs, buttocks and genitals would have caused “excruciating pain” when they were inflicted and in the days afterwards, and that would have been obvious to his mother.

He added:

This was a mother who could not possibly take her son to hospital because she knew that questions would immediately be raised as to how on earth this little boy had sustained those terrible injuries, not to mention the others caused by her beating him with regularity.

The pattern of the burns showed they were caused by Dwelaniyah being:

Deliberately and forcibly immersed in scalding water.

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