The video of the confession of Kristi Anne Abrahams that was played in court in June has been released to the public hours after she was sentenced to a maximum term of 22.5 years for murdering her own daughter, 6-year-old Kiesha Weippeart. In the disturbing video, the 30-year-old mum pleaded to an undercover cop to help her avoid jail.

The secret recording was secretly shot in April 2011 by an undercover officer, and was played in the New South Wales Supreme Court in June.

In the grainy video, Ms Abrahams told the officer how Kiesha died in 2010 and how she and her partner Robert Smith got rid of her lifeless body.

She described how her daughter went limp and “felt like jelly” after she hit her head on the bed.

“She was awake but like not awake... not responding,” the Mr Druitt resident can be heard in the video as saying.

Abrahams then took her daughter into the show to try to revive her.

“When we woke up in the morning ... she wasn’t breathing.”

She and Smith then kept her body in a suitcase in their home for days before burning and burying Kiesha in a shallow grave.

“And then we went to the bush, and then we went there, he didn’t want me to look,” Abrahams cried.

She pleaded to the officer to not let her go to jail, saying, “No one else knows... no one has seen anything or anyone.

“No way mate... I don’t want to go [to prison]. I don’t want to lose my family.”

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Ms Abrahams, who has an IQ of below 70, was sentenced to a non-parole prison period of 16 years up to a maximum of 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of Kiesha and interfering with her corpse.

The sentence was considered light by some critics, pointing out that as early as 2027, Ms Abrahams will be eligible for parole.

However, Justice Ian Harrison explained to the court that the crime was an impulsive and uncontrolled act of violence, which means that it ranks in the mid-range of seriousness. Abrahams has also shown remorse and is not likely to reoffend.

The judge also took into consideration Ms Abrahams’ own abused childhood, as well as her intellectual disability.

And although there was evidence of Kiesha suffering physical abuse throughout her young life, it could not be proven that Ms Abrahams had inflicted all injuries, save from an incident when Kiesha was still 15 months old and Ms Abrahams had bitten her on the shoulder.

Ms Abrahams will get psychiatric care and support and education while in jail.

Mr Smith, who confessed to being an accessory to the murder in February 2012, was sentenced to 12 years in jail in May.

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