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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katie Dickinson

Woman accused of torturing son tells court she ‘should have died instead’

PA Media

A mother accused of torturing her son to death alongside her partner sobbed as she told a court she “should have died instead of him”.

Sebastian Kalinowski died last August of an infection caused by “untreated complications of multiple rib fractures”, which prosecutors say came after weeks of “cruel assaults and abuse” at the hands of his mother and stepfather.

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