Mother, 27, jailed for leaving her baby daughter with permanent brain damage faces fresh charges after little girl died aged 2
- Sarah Ngaba left two-month-old Eliza with ‘catastrophic injuries’ in 2021
A cruel mother who battered her baby daughter leaving her with permanent brain damage could face fresh charges after the child died two years later.
Sarah Ngaba, 27, was jailed for 14 years in May 2021 after leaving two-month-old Eliza with ‘catastrophic injuries’ and failing to seek medical help for two hours.
A court heard she repeatedly lied about how her baby had become ‘floppy and unresponsive’ when she took her to hospital in November 2019.
Eliza suffered ‘life-threatening and life-limiting injuries’ as a result of the attack, which ‘permanently destroyed the quality of her life.’
Ngaba, of Telford, Shropshire, admitted hitting the child, but claimed she did not mean to injure her, and was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
But it has now emerged she faces a fresh police inquiry after Eliza, who had cerebral palsy, died at the age of two on August 15 last year.
Sarah Ngaba, 27, was jailed for 14 years after causing catastrophic injuries to her baby
An inquest heard the toddler passed away with a traumatic brain injury at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital after being admitted with pneumonia and Covid.
West Mercia Police confirmed detectives were now reviewing the case.
A force spokesperson said: ‘We are carrying out further enquiries into this case to establish if there is a need for further action.’
Warren Stanier, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said at the time of her conviction: ‘By her actions, Sarah Ngaba has permanently destroyed the quality of her baby’s life.
‘Her baby was left with severe disability and will be entirely dependent on others for the rest of her life.’
He said the defendant had ‘changed her account many times’ and tried to blame the baby’s father who was not present at the time of the attack in Brookside, Telford.
An inquest heard the toddler passed away with a traumatic brain injury at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (stock photo) after being admitted with pneumonia and Covid
Detective Inspector Jo Whitehead, of West Mercia Police, said previously: ‘This is a significant custodial sentence for such an incredibly distressing case.
‘Ngaba displayed the total opposite behaviour to that which would be expected of a caring mother.
‘Her horrific actions have resulted in her daughter’s future quality of life sadly being permanently diminished.’
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