Mum was more likely to injure girl, defence says in shaken baby trial

A five-month-old baby who was first taken to Cessnock Hospital on December 12, 2020, before being transferred to John Hunter Hospital, was later diagnosed with a fractured skull, broken ribs, bleeding on the brain, and loss of movement in her lower limbs. Her father is on trial in the Newcastle District Court. Picture by Max-Mason Hubers

DAD says it was mum who turned their five-month-old baby into a paraplegic on the morning of Saturday, December 12, 2020, and that she must have done it while he was asleep.

If it was the father, the baby's mum, who could hear the baby monitor in the next room, would have heard the sound of an impact and the baby's cry in response.