The Face of Child Torture; Mother Flees in Tears as Pictures of Her Murdered Child Are Shown

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Byline: SARAH HARRIS

THE mother of Victoria Climbie ran sobbing from a public inquiry yesterday after seeing horrific images of her murdered eightyearold daughter.

The child froze to death after suffering months of cruelty from her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, 44, and her boyfriend Carl Manning, 28.

She had been starved, beaten and bound naked in a bath.

After her death, 128 separate injuries were found on her body.

Social services, health officials and police missed at least 12 opportunities to save her.

Kouao and Manning are serving life for the youngster's murder in what has been described as Britain's worst child abuse …