Rubbish Chute Baby: Mum Given Jail Sentence

[Jazzy]

A woman has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after throwing her baby five floors down a rubbish chute.

Jaymin Abdulrahman was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm but cleared of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent. She will serve half of her sentence.

The 25-year-old put her six-day-old daughter in a binliner and dropped her more than 40ft (12m) down a chute at a block of flats in Wolverhampton in September 2012.

The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was discovered with serious head injuries, including a fractured skull, in a bin by her father and taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Birmingham Crown Court had heard how the baby would have taken 2.2 seconds to fall down the chute, reaching a maximum speed of 29 mph, before hitting a metal plate designed to deflect rubbish into a bin.

The judge described the baby's injuries as "catastrophic head injuries" from which she "will never fully recover" and will be "dependent on other people for the rest of her life".

Justice Kate Thirlwall accepted the incident was not premeditated and that Abdulrahman was suffering from a form of postnatal depression known as postpartum psychosis at the time.

But she said: "You will have to live with the consequences for the rest of your life.

"As you said yourself, you were her mother. You should have been her guardian."

Abdulrahman had denied all three charges.

Abdulrahman initially told police her child had been kidnapped by strangers but she was found a few hours later, apparently lifeless.

Prosecutors alleged that the Iraqi national deliberately placed her daughter into the chute with the intention of killing her.

But Abdulrahman, who accepted that she put her baby into the chute, told the jury she had not planned the incident and had "lost control of her thoughts".

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Only 30 months in prison? Hell, she should spend 30 years locked up in mental institution.