Cabramatta mum admits to vile abuse, killing toddler son

A Cabramatta mother has pleaded guilty to killing her two-year-old son, with the court hearing a graphic account of her horrific abuse.

A young southwest Sydney mother has pleaded guilty to horrifically killing her toddler, who died of injuries likened to someone being “hit by a car” or “kicked by a horse”.

The Cabramatta mother of four, with the court pseudonym DF, pleaded guilty in the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday to the manslaughter of her 2½-year-old son by committing an unlawful and dangerous act.

DF, who appeared in court in her prison greens via video link from Dillwynia Correctional Centre, entered a plea of not guilty to murder.

The forensic pathologist said the boy had injuries similar to being hit by a car. Picture: istock

The horrific circumstances leading up to the boy’s death in late 2018 were outlined in the agreed facts tendered to the court.

DF’s sister told investigators the mother-of-four would “grab (the deceased) by the hair, pick him up and throw him all the way over to the lounge”.

And she would “slap him like slapping a grown-up”, the agreed facts state.

The documents also state the toddler had a wobbly leg, which looked like a fracture, that the mother would force him to walk on.

On the day of the boy’s death, DF — who was 25 at the time — was urged by relatives to take her son to hospital after he was seen to be “limp” with his eyes rolling back and forth.

She eventually took him to Westmead Hospital in her arms, where a nurse described the boy as “lifeless, floppy, pale (and) cold to touch”.

Shortly after this he was pronounced dead.

The hospital staff saw multiple bruises on the boy’s head, face and body as well as internal bruising to his chest and abdomen, the documents said.

When police searched the mother’s property, they found the boy’s blood stains on the tiled living room floor along with a bloodstained ‘Boys Rule’ T-shirt on the couch.

The agreed facts state the mother gave “false, inaccurate or incomplete” explanations for the injuries and tried to blame the injuries on her older son.

“My little one must have pushed him (down the stairs)”, she told police.

The cause of death was blunt force injuries, with the forensic pathologist comparing the boy‘s body to someone being hit by a car or kicked by a horse.

The mother was remanded to appear in court in May for submissions on sentence.

The Crown told the court they would drop the Supreme Court charges against the boy’s father, of murder and concealing an indictable offence, and proceed with fresh charges against him in the District Court.