Baby death: Natasha Sultan to be sentenced for killing daughter
Baby death: Natasha Sultan given supervision order
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A mother who had post-natal depression when she killed her baby daughter in a "sudden explosion of violence" is to be sentenced later.
A mother who had post-natal depression when she killed her baby daughter in a "sudden explosion of violence" has been given a three-year supervision order.
Five-week-old Amelia Lilly Sultan-Curtis died in hospital from a single blow to the head on 8 October 2012.
Five-week-old Amelia Lilly Sultan-Curtis died in hospital after a single blow to the head on 8 October 2012.
Her 21-year-old mother Natasha Sultan was due to stand trial for murder.
Her 21-year-old mother Natasha Sultan was due to stand trial for murder but admitted the lesser charge of infanticide at Hull Crown Court.
She will be sentenced at Hull Crown Court on the lesser charge of infanticide. The judge said the balance of mind had been disturbed.
She was also banned from working with children.
'Difficult case'
Sultan, Welton Grove, Hull, admitted infanticide on the first day of her trial - a plea accepted by the prosecution.
Tim Roberts QC, for the prosecution, told the court Sultan had changed her story several times, at first denying any knowledge of injury to her child.
Later she claimed to have dropped the child accidentally before eventually admitting that she caused the fatal fracture to the skull.
Judge Jeremy Richardson QC told her: "I cannot, and will not, ignore the fact you killed your baby...in a sudden explosion of violence.
"It is an anxious and difficult case in equal measure.
"The facts are clear - you killed your much-loved and wanted child when the balance of your mind was disturbed."
Psychiatric reports showed she had been suffering from post-natal depression at the time of the killing.
Psychiatric reports showed she had been suffering from post-natal depression at the time of the killing.
