Rosdeep Adekoya lost her temper when three-year-old son Mikaeel was repeatedly sick at a Nando's restaurant in Edinburgh, beating him on the body and head as a punishment.
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When the little boy was sick for a third time, she beat him heavily on his back as he lay over the bath edge, assaulting him again just a few days.
After the little boy succumbed to his injuries and died on his bedroom floor, his mother hid his body in a suitcase and dumped it in the woods.
Adekoya went on to report her son missing to the police, claiming that he - along with his coat and shoes - had disappeared from his room.
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After a nationwide manhunt, which saw hundreds of members of the public help with the search, Adekoya eventually led police to her son's body - which had over 40 separate injuries - and was arrested.
However Adekoya has avoided a murder trial and the possibility of a life sentence of up to 35 years after a court accepted her guilty plea to the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
The 11-year sentence means that Adekoya – who reportedly left her children alone to go to nightclubs and take cocaine – could be out of prison within seven years.
Unhappy with the ruling, 5,000 residents have signed an online petition protesting at the failure of prosecutors to pursue a murder charge against Adekoya.
They claim that the violence to which she subjected the toddler and her failure to call an ambulance justified a murder charge.
A neighbour to Adekoya, Julie Macleod, who started the petition, said: "There are lot of people at fault here, social services being one of them, and they have questions to answer.
"By not having a trial and with no one from social services in the stands, they are avoiding being scrutinised.
"At the end of the day, the sentence is not enough. I have to go home and explain to my teenage daughter that the woman who killed the child we went out searching for day and night will only go to prison for at most 11 years."
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Judge Lord Glennie, passing sentence, said that while battering her son to death was cruel and inexcusable, it was clear Adekoya did not intend to kill him and was ‘not even aware that death was a possibility until it happened’.
John Dunn, Procurator Fiscal for the East of Scotland, said: "There can be few crimes more shocking than a parent killing their child.
"Having considered all the evidence in the case, including that of expert pathologists, Crown Counsel concluded that pleas of guilty to charges of culpable homicide and attempting to defeat the ends of justice were appropriate."
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