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A teen stepmum who inflicted such severe fatal abdominal injuries on a toddler that it split the girl's pancreas has won a bid to have the Supreme Court reassess her jail sentence.
Jessica Lee Rose Mulford was jailed for five years and seven months in the High Court at Hamilton last year after being found guilty of the manslaughter of 2-year-old Harlee-Rose Niven.
She was also found guilty of injuring with intent to injure after strangling Harlee-Rose five months before she died in April 2022.
Mulford was convicted and discharged by Ju
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