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Mum 'kills baby' while 'trying to silence her cries', prosecutor claims

A mum killed her two-month-old baby girl by crushing the infant's chest "mostly likely" to stop her crying, a prosecutor has claimed.

Abigail Palmer, 33, is accused of fracturing her daughter Teri-Rae's ribs, and jurors were told it was a "deliberate" injury that “caused or at least contributed" to the newborn's death.

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