The body of a young girl was wheeled around in a buggy for three days after she was allegedly killed by her mother's lover, a court was told.
Isabella Rose Wheildon was allegedly kicked or stomped by Scott Jeff, her mother's 24-year-old partner who inflicted horror injuries on the two-year-old.
The court heard of the "regime of escalating brutality" the toddler was subjected to by Jeff and her mother, Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, 24.
It's believed Isabella died on June 26, 2023, in a temporary housing unit in Ipswich, but Gleason-Mitchell allegedly covered it up.
The couple are accused of pushing her around in a buggy with a hoodie covering her face, and taking her dead body on a shopping trip to buy equipment for computer gaming.
On June 30, Wheildon's body was discovered under blankets in a shower at the housing unit after a woman received a Facebook message from "a friend of hers".
Prosecutor Sally Howes KC said: "That message disclosed that her friend's daughter had died in her sleep three days before and was in her pushchair in the bathroom. That friend was the first defendant, Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, and her daughter was Isabella."
Police officers were alerted to a "very strong smell" upon entering the room. One of the officers moved the blankets, revealing the "face of a young child who was not moving", the court was told.
Howes added: "He was aware of severe bruising on her face. She was cold to the touch."
Gleason-Mitchell allegedly "stood back, watched, and did nothing" as her daughter died, the court heard. According to a post mortem, she had "extensive external traumatic injuries to the soft tissues of the body including head, neck, torso, limbs" and other areas.
She also had fractures in both wrists and a "complex pelvic fracture involving several bones". Her cause of death was a "bone marrow embolism caused by skeletal trauma".
Jeff denied causing or allowing the two-year-old's death, but Gleason-Mitchell pleaded guilty to causing or allowing the death of a child, though she denies murder.