Mother watched toddler die in agony

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A woman watched her two-year-old daughter deteriorate and die in severe pain after a four-week campaign of abuse, a court has heard. Skip related content

Related photos / videos Mother 'watched toddler die in agony' Little Sanam Navsarka suffered more than 100 injuries and had fractures to all her limbs when she died in May last year.

Zahbeena Navsarka and Subhan Anwar, both 21, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, are charged with murdering the "vulnerable and defenceless" toddler.

The couple are accused of repeatedly assaulting Sanam over a month-long period or encouraging each other by standing by and doing nothing to save the little girl.

Continuing the prosecution's opening of the case at Bradford Crown Court, Julian Goose QC said: "Sanam died as a result of really serious injuries, deliberately inflicted upon her, over a period of up to four weeks before her death.

"It was not over a short period of time, it was not unexpected or unpredictable. It was over a long time as they both watched that two-year-old little girl in severe pain deteriorate until she died."

He added: "The defendants either inflicted that violence upon her together or one encouraged the other, standing by and doing nothing over all those weeks whilst she was being repeatedly assaulted and severely injured.

"The conduct of the defendants, together, when they saw her deteriorate was from a normal, happy child to one in severe pain, unable to walk and suffering regular fits."

The jury of six men and six women were told that the defendants left Sanam alone and dying in their home while they went to register with their GP on the day of her death.

The court also heard how tiny handprints and bloodstains were found inside cupboards at the home in Huddersfield and also at a former property in Batley, West Yorkshire.

Anwar, who is not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as a punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.

When the couple were interviewed by police after Sanam's death on May 8, 2008, they blamed each other for the injuries Sanam had suffered and both claimed to be frightened of the other, Mr Goose said.

The court has heard how Sanam was found to have 107 separate external injuries when she died.

Both her thigh bones had been fractured, causing fatty deposits to enter her bloodstream and resulting in her death, and she had fractures to both her arms.

The couple claimed Sanam had stopped breathing after they left her alone in the bath for ten minutes and returned to find her under the water.

But a pathologist who conducted a post-mortem examination on Sanam ruled out drowning as a cause of death.

Both deny murder and Anwar also denies a charge of causing or allowing the death of a child.

Navsarka has admitted an alternative charge of failing to protect Sanam

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I hope they both rot in hell.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Life without parole!

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

get the matches, i'll provide the gas.

[william_wallace 8]

Life without parole!

Too easy for them. Skin the bstards.

[mawilson 2,133]

[Amby 490]

#######? I don't understand how anyone could do that to a child.

[Mags 112]

I don't understand how people get so bloodthirsty in retaliation.

"String 'em up!"

"Skin the bast@rds"

"Get the matches, I'll bring the gas!"

I mean, really? Hasn't the human race moved on from that kind of mentality? No, don't answer that... *sighs*

Send them to prison, without parole, but to inflict the kind of inhumanity on them that they themselves inflicted on another smacks of hypocrisy.

[faryan 4]

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I don't understand how people get so bloodthirsty in retaliation.

"String 'em up!"

"Skin the bast@rds"

"Get the matches, I'll bring the gas!"

I mean, really? Hasn't the human race moved on from that kind of mentality? No, don't answer that... *sighs*

Send them to prison, without parole, but to inflict the kind of inhumanity on them that they themselves inflicted on another smacks of hypocrisy.

[william_wallace 8]

I don't understand how people get so bloodthirsty in retaliation.

"String 'em up!"

"Skin the bast@rds"

"Get the matches, I'll bring the gas!"

I mean, really? Hasn't the human race moved on from that kind of mentality? No, don't answer that... *sighs*

Send them to prison, without parole, but to inflict the kind of inhumanity on them that they themselves inflicted on another smacks of hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy my ring piece. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander. They both deserve to die a long and painful death....But thats my opinion.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

I don't understand how people get so bloodthirsty in retaliation.

"String 'em up!"

"Skin the bast@rds"

"Get the matches, I'll bring the gas!"

I mean, really? Hasn't the human race moved on from that kind of mentality? No, don't answer that... *sighs*

Send them to prison, without parole, but to inflict the kind of inhumanity on them that they themselves inflicted on another smacks of hypocrisy.

i'll cancel you for the bbq then.

[Amby 490]

Isn't justice getting what you deserve? I know the whole "two wrongs don't make a right" thing, but when you do something that horrible I think you deserve more than jail time. Death penalty isn't the answer either because you're just putting them out of their misery of jail.

[Mags 112]

Isn't justice getting what you deserve? I know the whole "two wrongs don't make a right" thing, but when you do something that horrible I think you deserve more than jail time. Death penalty isn't the answer either because you're just putting them out of their misery of jail.

Imo, justice is about getting punished for a crime. What that shouldn't entail is inflicting a bloodthirsty act on the guilty perpetrator. Send them to jail, remove their ability to live in society, free, but don't rip them apart from top to bottom, skin them and burn them.

Humans should have progressed enough in evolution to be beyond that. Sadly, I don't think they ever will whilst the "eye for an eye" train of thought exists.

But I will ask this - if people genuinely think that the perpetrators should have these acts performed on them, then they should be able to do the act themselves should the need arise. I'm sure there will be plenty of people who would say "yeah, I'd do it, no problem!" but in reality I'd bet that faced with the task of performing such an act they'd balk.

Edited January 14, 2009 by Magenta

[Amby 490]

Isn't justice getting what you deserve? I know the whole "two wrongs don't make a right" thing, but when you do something that horrible I think you deserve more than jail time. Death penalty isn't the answer either because you're just putting them out of their misery of jail.

Imo, justice is about getting punished for a crime. What that shouldn't entail is inflicting a bloodthirsty act on the guilty perpetrator. Send them to jail, remove their ability to live in society, free, but don't rip them apart from top to bottom, skin them and burn them.

Humans should have progressed enough in evolution to be beyond that. Sadly, I don't think they ever will whilst the "eye for an eye" train of thought exists.

But I will ask this - if people genuinely think that the perpetrators should have these acts performed on them, then they should be able to do the act themselves should the need arise. I'm sure there will be plenty of people who would say "yeah, I'd do it, no problem!" but in reality I'd bet that faced with the task of performing such an act they'd balk.

I dunno. What about the experiments they've done where people think they're inflicting pain and yet the majority of people continued until they're told the person has passed out or passed away.

[TracyLuis 0]

They'll get what's coming to them, one way or another.