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A cruel mum has been jailed for 10 years for starving her baby so badly he weighed less than when he was born.

Angel Poole's baby boy Judah Wessels died in July 2006 weighing just 5lbs, half the healthy weight of an infant his age, and two pounds less than his weight at birth.

The 25-year-old mum, of Birmingham, Iowa, missed a series of health appointments for her baby son with the killer mother telling cops she ‘just never got round to it.’

Judah was examined eight days after he was born, in early May 2016, and was found to be well-fed and cared for.

Roughly two months later Poole called 911 after finding her son unresponsive, with an autopsy showing he had been ‘markedly malnourished’ at the time of his death.

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A photo of Judah posted on his dad’s Facebook page shows the little boy looking underweight while laid on a floor next to his sister.

Poole wrote beside it "He was so handsome. Like his daddy."

She admitted child endangerment resulting in serious injury in return for having a more serious charge of child endangerment causing death dropped.

That would have seen Poole sentenced for up to 25 years.

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Poole, who also lost a second baby called Destinee Electra Rose, shared a ‘Baby Loss Awareness Month’ post on Facebook last October to show she was ‘Remembering my babies’ – despite being charged with killing one of them.

She made a post in July 2018 which appeared to blame Judah’s death on a brain injury, and suggesting the charges against her could be dismissed. P

Poole wrote: "Got some good news today. The new prosecutor in my case may have found exculpatory evidence while speaking to the Dr. that examined Judahs brain, he notified my lawyer of it a few days ago.

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"So now we just have to get the pathologist into depositions.. I think this is all finally coming to an end. Please continue to pray for me, God is listening!:

Her partner Ed Wixom replied backing her up, writing: "All of that stupid s*** they are trying to charge you with she be dropped everyone knows that your a good mother and the ones that are talking s*** and saying that your not a good mother is someone that has some other Vendetta."