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Mother who drowned her daughter because she believed the baby had dwarfism convicted of murder
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2869544/Obsession-perfection-Mother-mistakenly-believed-baby-suffering-dwarfism-guilty-drowning-six-month-old.htmlA woman has been found guilty of murdering her baby who she mistakenly believed had dwarfism and did not fit in with her 'obsession with perfection'.
The six-month-old baby girl was discovered by paramedics floating face down in the bathtub of her home in Sydney's inner west, on November 18, 2010....
Describing the 39-year-old as a mother 'obsessed with perfection', the court heard she had raised concerns with doctors soon after the girl's birth about skin tags on her ears....
Despite further testing and repeated assurances by doctors over the following months that the girl was healthy and 'normal', the mother became increasingly anxious that she was 'seeing the signs of a dwarf'.
The six-month-old baby girl was discovered by paramedics floating face down in the bathtub of her home in Sydney's inner west, on November 18, 2010....
Describing the 39-year-old as a mother 'obsessed with perfection', the court heard she had raised concerns with doctors soon after the girl's birth about skin tags on her ears....
Despite further testing and repeated assurances by doctors over the following months that the girl was healthy and 'normal', the mother became increasingly anxious that she was 'seeing the signs of a dwarf'.
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