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A mother pleaded guilty

And sentenced for second degree murder

For killing her 13 month old daughter

Who had undergone months of horror

She was addicted to drugs

Didn't have anybody to help her

She's a tragic figure

Rather than an evil figure

She feels tremendous remorse

About what happened to her child

A short life and litany of injuries

She shattered her skull

Breaking her bones

Human bites

From head to toe

Fingertips blackened

From cigarette burns

Blisters inside her lips

From a hot crack pipe

And this was love, from a mother to her child?

She feels terrible about it

Never intended to kill her

She gave birth to another child in jail

While awaiting trial in her daughters murder