Mother to receive child cruelty sentence after father pleads guilty to manslaughter of baby daughter

The mother of a four-month-old girl who died in 2013 with horrific injuries is expected to be handed down a sentence over allegations of child cruelty.

It is alleged the woman failed to take her daughter to the hospital after she received a fractured arm.

The injury was received a week prior to her death.

Yesterday, the baby’s father pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his baby daughter.

She died at a Surfers Paradise unit in September 2013 and allegedly had 20 broken ribs when she died, and numerous abrasions and bruises.

Shayne Robert Quinn, 29, was arraigned in the state’s Supreme Court in Brisbane yesterday.

He pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and one of grievous bodily harm.

He remains in custody and will be sentenced on September 21.