Scots woman who blamed mum after shaking 5-month-old baby in murder bid jailed

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A woman was today jailed after attempting to murder a five-month-old baby in a shaking attack despite blaming the child's mother for the crime.Kimberly Dow inflicted potentially life-threatening injuries on the defenceless infant when she was supposed to be looking after him.Dow, of Maitland Street, Dunfermline, in Fife, denied committing the murder bid during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh and lodged a special defence of incrimination, naming the boy's mother.But she was found guilty of assaulting the child on March 17 in 2022 by shaking him, inflicting trauma to his head and causing injury to his head by means unknown to the prosecutor to his severe injury and danger of life and attempting to murder him at her home.A advocate depute Michelle Brannagan told jurors: "There is only evidence of one single occasion when he suffered injury and that was .......

when he was in Kimberly Dow's care." When the baby was taken to hospital after the attack 15 distinct and separate bruises were seen on his face.

He was also found to retinal haemorrhages in both eyes which an experienced paediatric opthalmologist described as too numerous to count.

The baby was also discovered to have significant haemorrhaging around the brain and expert evidence indicated that the blood was so extensive and on so many areas of the brain that it was likely he suffered a prolonged period of shaking.The brain injuries were so severe that it could have led to the child's death, the court heard.Brannagan told the court: "I suggest an overwhelming picture comes into painfully sharp focus.