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Taninja Mitchell, who beat, bit and burned her 1-year-old daughter, pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of felony abuse and neglect.

Mitchell, 28, was herself a foster child who bounced from home to home. She has six other children, none of whom live with her. She relinquished her parental rights to four of the children. The other two were removed from her home and placed with guardians.

Mitchell's daughter, identified in court documents as B.Y., survived her injuries, which include abusive head trauma, a lacerated liver, fractured ribs and pelvis.

Mitchell told investigators she bit her daughter when she cried, burned her with cigarettes, pushed her head first into a radiator, pulled a shelving unit on her and scraped her on a nail-strewn floor.

She faces 43 years in prison and 23 years of extended supervision when she is sentenced by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Lindsey Grady in August.