The 34-year-old, named locally as Zoe David, was arrested after the body of Zoe-Anne was found by police at their home in Newport, south Wales on Friday.
Ms David was taken to hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries.

This news has shocked the area I live in, it’s practically around the corner. You never think something like this will happen locally it’s always in another city, another country, never on your own doorstep. The latest news is the young girl died of strangulation, and the mother tried to kill herself afterwards. I can’t imagine what must have been going through her mind for her even to think of doing this to her little girl. We’ll need to wait until the psychiatric report comes back but this woman is going to have to live with this for the rest of her life, that in itself is a punishment.

I can’t say I know the family, but that doesn’t lessen the shock. We always think we’re invincible, that we’ll never come of harm. Our family and friends will never come of harm and we’ll all here forever dodging all the badness but it doesn’t work like that. Goes to show that no one knows what is around the corner and one minute everything in life can be peachy then the next it’s all smashed to pieces. It can take weeks, months, years to be who you want to be, go where you want to go, and only one second for it to crash down. Life’s not fair but then, what is?

Humans are strong creatures, I believe in that. I don’t believe in weakness, in all actuality, I believe the people who feel weak are usually the strongest.

I’m not sure what to think of the mother in this recent news. Of course killing her daughter is absolutely unforgivable and for that she should face the consequences of her actions but then at the same time she couldn’t have been in a good state of mind. We can look at people from the outside and they seem sound, but at the end of the day we don’t know what’s going on inside their head. The only person who knows that is the one who’s head it belongs to. Just need to wait now and see how the case progresses

Am tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. What’s new? I’m always tired. But Thursday is ‘Switchover Day’ and I go from ‘afternoon’ shift (more like ‘evening shift’, but they call it ‘afternoon shift) to ‘morning shift’, and next week, I’ll go from mornings to afternoons… Anyway I’ll end here. Random babbling!!