A West Australian man has admitted unlawfully killing his daughter in an assault inflicted on her when she was a toddler.
Terrence John Bice, 40, critically assaulted Teagan Jade Ferguson in 2005 when she was aged two.
The assault prompted Teagan to maintain a traumatic mind harm and develop power well being situations.
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She entered palliative care in 2015 and died at Perth Kids’s Hospital in June 2020, aged 18.
Bice was charged with homicide the next yr, with police saying the accidents Teagan acquired “straight impacted on her high quality of life” and finally led to her dying.
Bice pleaded not responsible and had been attributable to face trial within the Supreme Court docket of WA.
However at a listening to on Thursday, Bice admitted duty by pleading responsible to the lesser cost of manslaughter.
Bice was jailed in 2005 for 5 years after pleading responsible to grievous bodily hurt over the assault.
The WA District Court docket heard Bice lifted Teagan up and threw her violently to the ground of their house within the northern Perth suburb of Wanneroo after being unable to cease her crying.
The toddler cracked her cranium and was knocked unconscious.
Bice is because of be sentenced in August.
