Mum used photos of dad playing with toddler to try and blame him for life-threatening injuries to their 18-month-old daughter PHOTOS of a dad playfully tossing his young daughter in the air were used by the toddler's mum in a bid to blame him for life-threatening injuries she had inflicted, a court has heard. The Brisbane District Court was told the 20-year-old mum tried to blame her estranged partner for the horrific injuries she inflicted on their 18-month-old daughter during a series of assaults in January 2011. The court was told the child's father had effectively saved his daughter's life by taking the child to hospital - unaware that two days earlier the mum had ignored a doctors advice to do exactly the same thing. The woman, now aged 22 and who cannot be named to protect her daughter's indentity, was jailed for five years on Tuesday after pleading guilty to five counts of assault causing bodily harm, one of grievous bodily harm and another for child cruelty. However, Judge Julie Dick ordered the woman's sentence be suspended after serving 15-months in custody. Prosecutor Sandra Cupina said the child's injuries only became apparent when the woman dropped the child off with her former partner on January 15, 2011. She said two days earlier the woman had taken the child to a local GP, but ignored his advice to take the child to hospital immediately. The court was told when the dad took the child to the Logan Hospital, on Brisbane's southside, staff reported the child would have died without immediate care. Ms Cupina said the child had been subjected to repeated "blunt force trauma" or "pulling" - resulting in a serious head injury, bruising to both eyes, the cheek and forehead. The toddler also received fractures to both arms and a serious back injury. The court was told when police started investigating the matter the mum produced photos of her former husband playfully tossing his daughter in the air in a bid to demonstrate he was rough with the child and thereby responsible for the injuries. Ms Cupina said the mum tried repeatedly to distance herself from injuring the child in anyway. But, the court was told medical evidence proved the injuries could have only been inflicted while the child was in the mother's care. Judge Dick, in sentencing the mum, said: "You have tried to minimize your behaviour (in hurting your child) all the way through." It's an extreme betrayal of trust to injure her (your daughter)... in the way and as often as you did. The court was told the child now lives with her father and has fully recovered from her physical injuries.