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Warning: This story contains distressing details<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
A one-year-old girl was murdered after suffering “systematic physical abuse”, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
Isabella Stasiak was found to have suffered multiple fractures and a fatal head injury when police were called to her home in Rugby, Warwickshire, in January 2025.<\/p>\n
Her mother Kinga Wydrzynska, 26, denies murder. She and the girl’s father, 28-year-old Michal Stasiak, also deny causing or allowing the death of a child, four counts of causing or allowing serious physical harm, two counts of sexual assault by penetration and three of child cruelty.<\/p>\n
Opening the case against them at Warwick Crown Court, Annabel Darlow KC warned jurors they would find evidence in the case “extremely distressing”.<\/p>\n
During the first hours of the trial, the jury were told Wydrzynska had concealed her pregnancy from her family and had given up the “unwanted” 13-month-old for adoption at birth.<\/p>\n
Isabella was returned to the care of her birth parents, who met when they both worked at a warehouse, in April 2024 after Stasiak contacted a social worker to ask if the couple could get help with housing if they changed their minds about having their daughter adopted.<\/p>\n
Addressing the jury, Darlow said: “In due course, you may wish to consider the extent to which the prospect of acquiring a new home influenced the defendants when they reversed their earlier firm decision to relinquish Isabella.”<\/p>\n
Medical experts found Isabella died of injuries consistent with a “forceful, direct impact to her head against a hard surface” and that her head had been “severely shaken”, jurors heard.<\/p>\n
Her injuries are believed to have been inflicted fewer than 12 hours before she died.<\/p>\n
She was also found to have sustained a number of further serious injuries, including fractured ribs, a broken right arm, multiple bruises and a burn covering her entire face.<\/p>\n
“The evidence shows that Isabella had been seriously hurt on different occasions over a period of at least five weeks before her death and that this abuse had culminated in the extremely serious head injuries which caused her death,” Darlow said. <\/p>\n
Wydrzynska was the only adult present in the house when the fatal injuries were inflicted, the court heard. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n