A childminder who shook a baby boy to death “in frustration” at the fact he was crying after falling from a chair then tried to blame his mother for his death has been jailed.
Karen Foster, 62, left nine-month-old Harlow Collinge with unsurvivable brain injuries after dropped off at her home in Hapton, Lancashire, by mum Gemma Collinge.
Just two hours later, Preston Crown Court heard the childminder – who had been breaking Ofsted rules to make more money from parents – rang emergency services to say Harlow had stopped breathing.
The youngster was rushed away by ambulance to Royal Blackburn Hospital, where Foster hugged his mother and claimed he had begun choking and she had slapped him on the back.
Foster claimed she had checked his mouth and slapped him in an attempt to dislodge anything stuck.
She then later tried to blame Ms Collinge for the injuries.
