A mother has been found not guilty of contributing to her baby girl's death.
A Brisbane Supreme Court jury took less than one day to acquit the 39-year-old woman of one count of failing to supply the necessaries of life to her three-month- old child.
During the trial it was alleged she had failed to provide proper nutrition for the young girl, or to seek adequate medical care for her.
The court was told the baby had been born with a cleft palate, which made feeding more difficult than usual.
She had been suffering from chronic pneumonia and was underweight when she died in her mother's rented home at Mt Gravatt, in Brisbane's south, on July 3, 2004.
Her mother had originally also pleaded not guilty at the start of the trial to her daughter's manslaughter, however this charge was dropped mid-trial after Justice Peter Lyons ruled there was insufficient evidence to support the charge.
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