The Crown has opened its case in the murder trial of 21-year-old babysitter Shayal Sami.
One-year-old baby girl, Aaliyah Chand, was in her care when she suffered two skull fractures, internal bleeding and severe facial bruising, and died from her injuries in January 2015.
Crown Prosecutor Mark Zarifeh told court today, "the injuries weren't accidental, but inflicted by the defendant".
The accused was pregnant at the time, and looked after Aaliyah during the day while her father went to work as a bus driver.
On January 7, 2015, she got her neighbour to rush her to hospital with the little girl, who was floppy unresponsive and grey.
Shayal Upashna Sami, 20, is accused of murdering the baby girl in 2015.
An ICU nurse who met them at the hospital wondered if the baby was already dead, and although she was taken to ICU and put on life support she never regained consciousness.
The defendant told both hospital staff and police that the baby, who couldn't walk but was able to pull herself up, had injured herself falling off the couch at her flat.
However Crown prosecutor Mark Zarifeh told the jury: "The injuries were inflicted in a moment of anger and frustration, and the Crown says in relation to the murder charge it's a reckless killing."
The Defence case states that the baby's death was a "tragic accident".
Defence Lawyer Jonathan Eaton, QC, told the jury: "I want to make it clear from the outset, there was no crime committed here, there was no murder, no manslaughter, no assault."
The trial continues.
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