{"id":100740,"date":"2023-11-15T00:45:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=100740"},"modified":"2023-11-15T00:45:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:45:39","slug":"mother-who-escaped-justice-for-11-years-after-murdering-baby-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/mother-who-escaped-justice-for-11-years-after-murdering-baby-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother who escaped justice for 11 years after murdering baby jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>BREAKING: Mother, Katie Tidmarsh, who escaped justice for 11 years after murdering a baby she was adopting is jailed for 17 years as judge declares &#8216;You lied to cover up what you did&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Katie Tidmarsh, 39, was found guilty of killing foster child Ruby 11 years ago\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A woman convicted of wounding and later murdering her adopted daughter has been jailed for life with a minimum of 17 years at Leicester Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Tidmarsh, 39, was found guilty by a jury on Thursday of killing one-year-old Ruby Thompson, who had been placed with Tidmarsh and her husband five months earlier by Leicestershire County Council.<\/p>\n<p>During her trial, the court heard the injuries caused to Ruby were equivalent to a fall from a second-storey window or a road accident at 60mph.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby had been violently shaken and her head had been bashed against a hard object, breaking her skull.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/13\/77650603-12734593-Katie_Tidmarsh_was_found_guilty_of_killing_one_year_old_Ruby_Tho-a-130_1699622984087.jpg\" height=\"768\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Katie Tidmarsh, pictured, was found guilty\u00a0of killing one-year-old Ruby Thompson, who had been placed with Tidmarsh and her husband five months earlier<\/p>\n<p>In August 2012 emergency services were called to the couple&#8217;s home in Pickwell Crescent, Glenfield, and Leicestershire Police arrived to find the baby unconscious and rushed her to Leicester Royal Infirmary. She died in hospital two days later.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned by police, Tidmarsh lied and said Ruby had rolled over backwards and banged her head on the rug.<\/p>\n<p>But a post-mortem examination revealed the full extent of Ruby&#8217;s injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing Tidmarsh, Mr Justice Wall said he did not think she intended to kill the youngster in the assault, which happened just days after Ruby&#8217;s first birthday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that her victim was a &#8216;defenceless young child&#8217; and her actions &#8216;constituted a gross breach of trust&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The judge told Tidmarsh she was &#8216;ill-equipped&#8217; to raise a child due to her mental health difficulties, adding: &#8216;You also tried to cover up what you had done by delaying medical treatment for Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You abused her that morning and then have lied to cover up what you did.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said it was also a serious aggravating factor that Tidmarsh lied to the county council by claiming she was in good mental health.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/13\/77650605-12734593-image-a-131_1699622999434.jpg\" height=\"338\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tidmarsh, of Station Road, Littlethorpe, Leicester, was also charged with two counts of causing grievous bodily harm relating to previous arm break injuries to Ruby<\/p>\n<p>Tidmarsh and her husband were in the process of adopting Ruby when a 999 call was made from the family address in August 2012 saying she had suffered a seizure and was not breathing. She died two days later.<\/p>\n<p>But medical experts proved the injury was caused by shaking and a high-energy impact.<\/p>\n<p>Medics treating Ruby spotted two previous fractures to her right shoulder on her X-rays, as well as a broken arm which she was treated for two weeks before, with Tidmarsh saying the youngster had been knocked over by one of her dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Tidmarsh, of Station Road, Littlethorpe, Leicester, was also charged with two counts of causing grievous bodily harm relating to previous arm break injuries to Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>She was found guilty of one of these charges and not guilty of the other.<\/p>\n<p>The judge told Tidmarsh: &#8216;You have always steadfastly maintained that nothing happened to Ruby on the morning of her collapse save that, as she sat on a rug in the living room, her eyes suddenly rolled into the back of her head and she fell backwards from her seated position onto the rug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The experts all agreed that this would not account for the injuries sustained by Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Your story provided neither an explanation as to why her eyes might have rolled back into her head, nor an explanation for the other severe injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I sentence you on the basis that you abused her that morning and have lied to cover up what you did.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;Your victim was a defenceless young child and you, her carer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Your actions in respect of Ruby constituted a gross breach of trust.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Justice Wall described Tidmarsh as an &#8216;educated and intelligent woman&#8217;, but told her she had &#8216;always lied&#8217; about how Ruby had sustained injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;You only took her to hospital after your mother noticed that Ruby was in discomfort and not using her arm properly.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The judge told the defendant she had also lied about her mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;You deliberately covered up your mental health difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Those actions gave the social workers confidence to entrust Ruby to your care.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The case took 11 years to come to court.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing the delay, the judge told Tidmarsh: &#8216;The evidence is that you were able to get on with your life confident that your past would not catch up with you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This delay has allowed you to carry on with your life while relatively young for 10 years or more when you ought to have been in prison.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Tidmarsh&#8217;s conviction followed an inquest, and then lengthy court proceedings in 2017 when a judge ruled the foster carer had inflicted the injuries which resulted in Ruby&#8217;s collapse and death.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted a further consultation between the police and the CPS and the instruction of extra medical experts.<\/p>\n<p>Tidmarsh, who was previously arrested in 2012 before facing no further action, was arrested again in 2022 and charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12734593\/Mother-escaped-justice-11-years-murdering-baby-adopting-jailed-17-years-judge-declares-lied-cover-did.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: Mother, Katie Tidmarsh, who escaped justice for 11 years after murdering a baby she was adopting is jailed for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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