Mother of baby Ebony tells court father hit Ebony "many times" The Brooklyn Park unit where the body of a four-month-old baby Ebony was found. THE father of a baby girl who died from more than 50 injuries found it amusing she spent the week before her death in a vegetative state, a court has heard. The mother of baby Ebony has pleaded guilty to criminal neglect and today gave evidence in the Supreme Court against her former partner. Ebony died at the age of four months at Brooklyn Park in 2011. Prosecutors previously had alleged Ebony had 48 old healing rib fractures; four recent rib fractures; a healing fracture to the left and right humerus; fractures to her fingers and toes and internal retinal haemorrhaging The former partner has also pleaded guilty to criminal neglect - the court is holding a disputed facts hearing to determine each person's level of culpability. In her evidence today, the mother - who cannot be named because she was a minor at the time - said the man found Ebony's suffering "funny." Her eyes were rolling in the back of her head and she was just still. She didn't cry. She didn't want food or anything," she said. (The former partner) just started laughing and he said to me that I had to wheel Ebony in a wheelchair and feed her through a tube. I wanted to take her to the hospital, get her help... he just (said) stay at home because he didn't want people to find out he had been hurting her. The mother said that, the night before Ebony died, she went to bed at around 10pm. She left the father smoking cannabis in the kitchen and Ebony in her bouncer in the lounge room. She said the father woke her around 3am and she found Ebony lying on the floor. "I said to (him) 'what did you do to her?' and he said he was balancing Ebony on his legs and then she just stopped breathing," she said. The mother told the court she took the father's phone to call an ambulance but he "grabbed" it from her. "He said I wasn't allowed to ring an ambulance because he didn't want (anyone) seeing the bruises on Ebony's face," she said. (She had) bruises on her forehead and under her eye. He used to smash Ebony on the head with her Avent (feeding) bottle. So many times... he was doing that to Ebony right until she died. She said the father continued to hit Ebony even during the week before her death when she was in a vegetative state. The mother said Ebony's father would plan what he was going to tell the authorities. "I said 'you're going to jail for murdering my daughter'... he hit me," she said. She said the father told her she wasn't allowed to tell anybody about what he did and that he was sorry. She said he told her to tell the police that she was the one who found Ebony dead. He told me that it was better for the mother to find her than the father. When asked why she lied to the police about what happened, the mother said her former partner told her he would kill her. She said her former partner was violent towards her in the first few days after Ebony's death but then "started getting remorseful." Yesterday the father gave evidence that he shook and squeezed Ebony between seven and 10 times before her death when she would not stop crying.