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Subscriber only A young Queensland mother accused of checking Facebook and tending to other children while her baby daughter drowned in a laundry sink has appeared in court again. Lavinia Alison Murray, 21, is accused of leaving her seven-month-old baby in a makeshift bath in the laundry sink for up to 10 minutes on three separate occasions before returning a fourth time to find the little girl blue and unresponsive on February 5 this year. Murray was granted bail at her last appearance on February 12, with the case mentioned in Murgon Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Police prosecutor sergeant Pepe Gangemi informed the court a brief of evidence had been submitted to Murray s lawyers on April 28.