"A stepmother who left her four-year-old stepson with injuries that would typically be associated with car crashes or serious assaults has pleaded guilty to the child's murder on the fourth day of her trial."
"The woman, aged in her 30s, had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter and was being tried before a jury at the Central Criminal Court."
She pleaded guilty to the child's murder on the fourth day of her trial after leaving her four-year-old stepson with injuries consistent with high-impact trauma such as car crashes or major assaults. The accused is a woman in her 30s. She had initially entered a plea of not guilty to murder while admitting guilt to manslaughter. The case was being heard before a jury at the Central Criminal Court. The change of plea upgraded the formal conviction from manslaughter to murder during ongoing criminal proceedings.
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