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A man from Walsall has been sentenced to life in prison after the death of his five week old daughter. The child’s mother has also been jailed, while a safeguarding review is due to be published.

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00:01A father from Walsall has been jailed for life for murdering his five-week-old daughter
00:06after she suffered repeated assaults.
00:08Stafford Crown Court heard Darcy Lee Jefferson died in hospital in March 2022 after a catastrophic
00:15brain injury at her home in Burntwood.
00:19Sean Jefferson, aged 35, of Birch Court in Walsall was given a minimum term of 22 years.
00:25Amy Clark, aged 34, from Lugely Close in Litchfield was jailed for seven years after being convicted
00:32of causing or allowing her daughter's death.
00:34Staffordshire County Council says a safeguarding review will be published in due course after
00:39accepting more could and should have been done.
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