22 November 2011
Last updated at 09:16 ET
A mother who held her two-year-old daughter under a scalding hot shower causing fatal injuries has been convicted of manslaughter.
Kristiana Logina died two weeks after being scalded at her home in Harborne, Birmingham, in February 2010.
Eva Logina and her ex-partner Rashpal Chana, a magistrate of 18 years, had denied the charge.
The pair did not seek treatment which could have saved Kristiana, Nottingham Crown Court was told.
Her burns were left untreated for so long the damaged skin eventually died and began to decay.
The court heard Kristiana suffered 10% burns when she was held under the shower by her mother, a Latvian national who came to the UK in 2007.
Soiled herself
Logina, 25, currently of High Street, Smethwick, and Chana, 49, of Dibble Road, Smethwick, applied creams to the injuries but did not seek further treatment.
Chana, who has served as a magistrate on the Birmingham bench, was charged with manslaughter on 15 February last year at his former home in Tennal Road, Harborne, which the couple shared.
Kristiana soiled herself, according to what Logina told
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