22 November 2011
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Eva Logina was found guilty of manslaughter and child cruelty
A mother who held her two-year-old daughter under a scalding hot shower causing fatal injuries has been jailed for six years.
Toddler Kristiana Logina died two weeks after being scalded at her home in Harborne, Birmingham, in February 2010.
Her mother Eva Logina and her former partner Rashpal Chana were earlier convicted of manslaughter at Nottingham Crown Court.
Chana, a magistrate for 18 years, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
The pair did not seek treatment which could have saved Kristiana, Nottingham Crown Court was told.
The jury also found Logina guilty of child cruelty.
Jurors were told that Kristiana died of septic shock after she suffered 10% burns when she was held under the shower by her mother, a Latvian national who came to the UK in 2007.
The water temperature could have reached 58C (136F).
Kristiana’s burns were left untreated for so long the damaged skin eventually died and began to decay.
Soiled herself
Logina, 25, currently of High Street, Smethwick, and
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