A "binge-drinking" mum tried to frame two men when she was caught violently abusing her baby.
Julia Priadina, 32, inflicted more than 30 injuries on her three-month-old child during a disastrous spiral of alcohol abuse.
She tried to blame two complete strangers of bruising her baby in a bid to get away with the abuse, reports Birmingham Live.
Priadina's cruel acts came to light after she drew attention to herself at an Asda supermarket because she was so intoxicated.
A security guard rushed over and called emergency services after she left the store and strolled away from the pram.
Hospital doctors discovered that the baby had suffered several cuts and bruises as well as significant head trauma due to "non-accidental" shaking and impact.
Priadina, from Birmingham, was jailed for three years and nine months after pleading guilty to child cruelty and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
In a shocking move the mum decided to try to implicate two complete strangers before coming clean.
The dishonest act was taken in a bid to exonerate herself of the abuse in April 2020.
Prosecutor Nina Ellin said: "The defendant was interviewed once arrested. She gave an account of going out to Lidl and walking home.
"She said she was approached by two black males asking how she was. She didn't know them but decided to take them home.
"They had all been drinking and she left the flat to buy more alcohol and left her baby with the two men.
"When she returned her baby was crying but not visibly injured. The following morning she saw a bruise to the left cheek and her baby was crying.
"She didn't call the police or seek medical attention because she didn't speak English."
CCTV unravelled Priadina's bogus claims despite a witness seemingly supporting her story.
The witness recalled seeing two males help the mum carry her pram upstairs one evening in April 2020.
But he stated they mostly remained outside the property smoking for between 20 and 30 minutes while Priadina went back and forth from inside her home, on one occasion bringing her baby outside with her.
She spent the night alone with the child at the flat before the incident occurred at Asda the following day.
Antonie Muller, defending, expressed his surprise that Priadina abandoned her false story and accepted responsibility.
He said: "I thought she was going to blame those men. She just didn't she admitted it was her and came to terms with that. That takes a bit of doing."
Priadina was jailed in January but her full story can only now be revealed after her partner Shoja-ul-din Omrany was found not guilty of child cruelty.
Mr Omrany, the baby's father, stood trial at Birmingham Crown Court July 14.
The 54-year-old had returned home in the early afternoon and attended Asda with Priadina to purchase supplies before she walked out of the store without him.
He denied wilful neglect by failing to seek medical attention for his child.
A jury took less than two hours of deliberation to unanimously find him not guilty.
A blood sample revealed Priadina had consumed so much alcohol on the day of her arrest that she would have been approximately three and a half times over the drink-drive limit.
Mr Muller added: "Sober, one would have thought there's no problem here.
"She clearly had a catastrophic breakdown into alcohol abuse when she couldn't possibly care for her baby and no doubt was susceptible to reacting to her baby crying.
"It looks like she shook and gripped her baby very roughly. It was all relatively short-lived."
The defence barrister stated she suffered bereavement and grief issues following the loss of her parents and her young son in Lithuania to sudden infant death syndrome.
Mr Muller added: "It must have been horrendous and now she has got to live with the fact she's done this. It is quite a catalogue.
"She moved across the world to the UK no doubt wanting a better life. When she got here things didn't turn out to be as rosy as she thought.
"She doesn't blame the co-accused. He could have been more supportive. She had no support with the child.
"Whatever her bereavement or grief problem was it festered. Nobody was there to stop what was coming and she wasn't able to deal with it.
"That's why we are here. She had this alcohol crutch."
It was also said that she struggled as a new mum and that the early days of Covid made that much worse.
Judge Roderick Henderson, passing sentence, said: "This was arguably a life-threatening injury and the truth of this is this was a disastrous period of a few days where an otherwise good mother lost complete control because you had a very serious drink problem at the time."
