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| Kandyce Downer, the woman who was found guilty of battering an 18-month-baby to death, has been jailed for life. | Kandyce Downer, the woman who was found guilty of battering an 18-month-baby to death, has been jailed for life. |
| Downer, 34, was convicted of murdering toddler Keegan Downer, formerly Shi-Anne, on Tuesday at Birmingham Crown Court. She will be jailed for a minimum of 18 years. | |
| The toddler collapsed on 5 September at the family home in Birmigham. A post mortem found she had died from a combination of septicaemia, infection, blunt chest trauma and old head injuries. | |
| Medical evidence also given in court stated that Keegan had sustained 200 injuries on her body, including seven broken ribs, brain and spinal injuries and bruises on her face and body. There were a total of 153 scars found on her including the baby's face and neck. | |
| She had also suffered from an untreated spiral leg fracture which had caused a deformity, leaving one leg shorter than the other and in a considerable amount of pain, and a head injury that would have hindered her ability to fight infection. | |
| Mrs Justice Frances Patterson, sentencing Downer to life imprisonment, said: "It is a horrible tale of callous conduct and at no stage have you showed any remorse. | |
| "Why you changed from a loving mother to a brutal attacker of a defenceless child is a mystery." | |
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