Nine-month-old Harlow Collinge was shaken to death at his childminder’s home in 2022 (Picture: MEN Media)
A childminder who shook a baby to death in frustration at his crying has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Karen Foster, 62, was looking after nine-month-old Harlow Collinge at her home in Hapton, Lancashire, in March 2022 when the boy fell from his chair.
After he started crying, she picked him up and shook him so violently that he suffered fatal injuries.
Emergency services were called to the property and told Harlow had collapsed.
He was taken to hospital where he spent four days with his parents at his side before he died.
Foster was charged with murder, a charge she denied, but she later admitted to shaking Harlow in frustration.
A second charge of cruelty towards another child has been left to lie on file.
The 62-year-old is due to be sentenced at a hearing next week.
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