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| Childminder guilty of killing boy | Childminder guilty of killing boy |
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| A childminder has been found guilty of manslaughter after a 16-month-old boy died in her care. | |
| Agnes Wong, 28, was looking after Hugo Wang at her flat in Frank Cowin Court, Fitzwilliam Street, Salford, last year when he suffered fatal head injuries. | Agnes Wong, 28, was looking after Hugo Wang at her flat in Frank Cowin Court, Fitzwilliam Street, Salford, last year when he suffered fatal head injuries. |
| Manchester Crown Court heard she had picked him up by his ankles and flung him against either a bed or a settee. | Manchester Crown Court heard she had picked him up by his ankles and flung him against either a bed or a settee. |
| Wong denied murder but was found guilty of manslaughter and is to be sentenced at Preston Crown Court in April. | Wong denied murder but was found guilty of manslaughter and is to be sentenced at Preston Crown Court in April. |
| The toddler was taken to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital in Pendlebury, but died from his injuries the next day. | |
| Burn mark | |
| He suffered bleeding and severe swelling of the brain and had bruising to his legs, a burn mark and bite marks. | |
| In court, Wong admitted that she had hit and bitten Hugo in the days before his death when he had been "naughty". | |
| She claimed the burn mark was caused when Hugo was playing with a hairdryer. | |
| Wong's partner, Jian Liu, had been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child by an unlawful act and attempting to pervert the course of justice, but a jury found him not guilty of both charges. | |
| Hugo was being cared for by Wong, who was being paid £120 a week to look after him. | |
| His father and mother, who was only 16 when she gave birth, worked at a Chinese restaurant in Southport. | |
| His mother only saw Hugo once a week, the court was told. |