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Jack Gramenz

Trial begins over toddler's death in neighbour's unit

Cecil Patrick Kennedy is on trial accused of a toddler's manslaughter in 2005. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Jordan Thompson's mother says she was told the sleeping toddler was fine and not to worry about him waking up in her absence, before he died while she took a trip to the shops.

More than 18 years later, Cecil Patrick Kennedy, 51, has pleaded not guilty to the toddler's manslaughter at Singleton in the NSW Hunter region on March 19, 2005.

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