The couple have been jailed for the 'tortuous' punishment
A five-year-old girl was just minutes from death and had a core temperature of just 25C after being left in a cold bath by her mother and stepfather.
While at the hospital, a temperature check showed the girl had a temperature of just 25.1C and a low heart rate. She also suffered a seizure and doctors believed she was "close to death", the prosecutor said. A professor of infant health and developmental physiology said in a statement he believed the girl would have been in the bath for a time between one to three hours. He said: "Once the shivering stops the person becomes drowsy. If the parents were in the room with her they would be well aware she was becoming unwell 30 minutes before they found her.
Both Kilkenny, of Norman Terrace in Leeds, and Newman, of Thorne Hill Road in Huddersfield, were interviewed by police. Kilkenny said he heard a "bang" from the bathroom and found the girl unresponsive before he started to carry out chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth. Newman stuck with her account that Kilkenny had found the girl. The court heard she told officers she thought her daughter was concussed and had called an ambulance after trying to warm her up by drying her hair.
Mitigating for Kilkenny, Mark Foley said he pleaded guilty on the basis that the girl had been placed into the bath as punishment and on two occasions she had been asked to get out of the bath but had refused.
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