08/13/2021 11:02
Clarín.com
International
Updated 08/13/2021 11:02 AM
Nicola Priest,
23, obsessed with social media, selfies and her followers, was sentenced to
15 years in prison
for manslaughter after her
three-year-old
daughter
Kaylee
was found dead with injuries to her chest and abdomen. .
In addition, the woman decided to upload the video to the social network Tiktok, once she had killed the young woman in the United Kingdom.
Nicola Priest danced around the room imitating a song and looked like any other young woman who posted silly videos on her TikTok account.
However, the carefree 23-year-old was supposedly a grieving mother because her daughter Kaylee
had died just 45 days before from horrific injuries.
The TikTok video and the cruel Priest's obsession with social media and her phone were detailed to jurors who attended a harrowing trial in a Birmingham, England courthouse.
Priest was jailed last week by Birmingham Crown Court, and
experts compared the baby's injuries to those of a child run over at 40 miles per hour or fallen from a third floor.
Nicola and Callum were found guilty of the girl's crime.
Three-year-old Kaylee-Jayde Priest was found dead in the apartment where she lived with her mother, Nicola Priest, on August 9 of last year.
The girl's mother called 911, but a jury convicted her after hearing that the girl was
"dead before the call was made."
The little girl, described at the trial as a "happy child",
died from serious injuries to her chest and abdomen.
Subsequent medical examinations showed that he also had other old injuries, including broken ribs, lower leg fractures, and a fractured sternum.
Kaylee-Jayde Priest was abused by her mother and her partner.
Jurors heard Priest punch Kaylee on the head and refer to her as a "fucking brat", while the girl was also heard crying "in a fearful tone".
On one occasion, downstairs neighbors at Kingshurst House, Solihull, recalled hearing a bang upstairs and then Kaylee crying, before allegedly hearing Priest say,
"I'll just say he fell out of bed."
The same residents claimed to have noticed that
"when Kaylee cried, the response seemed to be to cover her crying with music."
Nicola Priest, the girl's mother, was convicted.
In a text message exchange on July 24, 2020, days before Kaylee's death,
Priest told Redfern: "I'm going to kill her ...
because she keeps leaving the living room or going to the kitchen as well. that I have beaten and slapped him for shitting in his diaper. "
Redfern said, "
Well, give him one of my share."
Three days later, Redfern texted Priest saying, "I'm going to keep the little brat away from me."
Prosecutors said the messages painted a clear picture
of Priest and Redfern's "nonchalant attitude toward Kaylee."
The lawyer for the prosecution, Andrew Smith QC, opened the case at the beginning of the trial: "The case of the prosecution is that his death was caused by having received serious injuries to the chest and abdomen in an assault sustained on August 8, last year.
"That willful assault occurred when both defendants were alone with Kaylee-Jayde."
Since Priest moved into the apartment in mid-2019, neighbors have heard her "regularly yell" at Kaylee, including comments like "Shut up," "Go away," or "Leave me alone," and "never anything positive or kind." .
The girl's mother was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In the footage that was presented in court, Kaylee-Jayde and her mother were seen together,
just hours before the girl's fatal collapse
, using an elevator in the apartment building where they lived.
The images showed Priest's complete disinterest in his daughter, repeatedly checking her reflection in the mirror and consulting her phone,
while the girl periodically looked at her mother's face.
At no point in the recording is there a physical contact between the couple, since Priest does not even come close to taking his daughter's hand.
Priest was also found guilty of cruelty to a child, in connection with the young woman's historical injuries, but Redfern was acquitted of that charge.
In a statement released by police following the verdicts, Kaylee's grandmother, Debbie Windmill, said that
the shock of her death would be with her for the rest of her life.
Priest and Redfern were sentenced to 15 years in prison.