Story By: Feza Uzay, Sub-Editor: Marija Stojkoska, Agency:  Newsflash

A monster mum who reportedly confessed to torturing her baby -including cutting her with razor blades and injecting bleach into her veins – is facing 20 years in jail.

Ezgi Korucu, 28, is accused of torturing her 18-month-old daughter Eylul Mira in the district of Avcilar in the north-western Turkish city of Istanbul.

She was arrested after her last trip to hospital with the sick youngster on 9th February 2019 when doctors finally realised the child was being allegedly tortured.

Ezgi, who was detained and released twice before, said she realised that this time would be the last and therefore confessed to the abuse, according to reports.

She was questioned by prosecutors and was quoted in local media as saying: “I could not love my daughter and I wanted her to die, slowly. So I decided to torture her. I tormented her with razor cuts on her head, legs, arms, chest, and eyelids.

“I injected liquid soap and bleach into her veins using a syringe. This started when my daughter was one month old.

“There was an investigation against me, but I denied the allegations. I carried out the torture when my family was asleep or not around to see it.”

Prosecutors are demanding that she serve up to 20 years for “deliberately attempting to kill a child, aggravated by the use of torture”.

The defendant wrote letters to her family from prison. In one note to her daughter, she said: “I apologise to you and your siblings. Eylul, please forgive me. I am not a bad mother.”

She also wrote to her husband Eray Korucu, saying: “Thank you very much for not shaming me in front of my children. We managed 13 years together somehow, one way or another.”

The defendant’s lawyer indicated that the woman was scared to tell the truth and that in reality her alleged acts were a result of the abuse she suffered in her marriage.

He said: “My client wanted to go to jail to get away from her living conditions, and that is why she deliberately lied. This woman had raised two children before, and if the accusations were true, she would have harmed her other children too.”

The defendant remains in custody as the trial continues.

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