06:20 EDT, 15 December 2020
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A young mother charged over the death of her baby boy from an ice overdose has been committed to stand trial after witnesses recalled the toddler s harrowing final days and the frantic efforts to save him.
Thirteen-month-old Makavelii Leoni was found unresponsive at a Cairns home in far north Queensland in September 2018 and later died in hospital.
His mother Lina Daley, 22, didn t enter pleas to five charges include torture, drug trafficking, drug possession and indecent treatment of a child during a two day committal hearing this week.
Makavelii sustained 43 injuries to his body including bite marks, burns, bruises and grazes and allegedly suffered prolonged and systemic exposure to ice through his mother s breast milk, police allege.