A Canberra mother is behind bars after allegedly abusing her toddler in a series of incidents that are said to "raise the spectre of her child dying, being injured or taken out of her care".
The 21-year-old, who cannot be named, allegedly slapped or otherwise struck her two-year-old daughter on three occasions earlier this month, the ACT Magistrates Court heard when she was refused bail on Monday.
When she faced court via audio-visual link from a remote room, she did not enter pleas to three counts of common assault or a single charge of subjecting a child in her care to ill-treatment.
