A woman who stabbed her eight-week-old son to death has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for murder, reports RTE.
A 31-year-old woman was given concurrent sentences at Belfast Crown Court for the attempted murder of her two-year-old daughter.
The defendant, whose name cannot be released due to reporting restrictions, cried in court as she was sentenced by Judge Donna McColgan Casey.
A mother stabbed her children at their home in Belfast on the evening of July 27, 2021, and while her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter survived the knife attack, her eight-week-old son died.
She admitted stabbing the children but denied the allegations, reports RTE.
In March, she was convicted of murder and attempted murder.
Speaking after the sentencing, PSNI inspector Gina Quinn said it was an “totally distressing case”.
She said: “Police, who were called to a house in Belfast that evening, found the woman with her two injured children. The baby boy, who was just eight weeks old, had sustained two stab wounds to his chest. Paramedics transferred the little one to hospital but, tragically, he was pronounced dead later that evening. The young girl had also been stabbed in the chest. She was transferred to hospital and survived, thanks to emergency, life-saving surgery. Both children had been stabbed by their mother, a parent who should, of course, have been loving, caring and protecting,” reports RTE.
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