A man accused of murdering his girlfriend's daughter became angry at the child before her death. Source: AAP
WHEN Carly Knight saw a picture of two-year-old Tanilla Warrick-Deaves on the front paper of her local paper, she immediately recognised the dead child.
She had witnessed a violent incident three weeks earlier involving the little girl and a man on her street in Wyong, on the NSW Central Coast.
The crown alleges the man was Warren Ross, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering his girlfriend's child at a house in Watanobbi on the Central Coast on August 25, 2011.
Ms Knight told the NSW Supreme Court that some time in early August she was in her driveway taking her two sleeping children and groceries out of her car when she heard a very loud and violent noise nearby.
Minutes later she saw a man screaming at a small child.
"His head was bobbing up and down, arms waving ... he was just going crazy," Mr Knight told Ross' murder trial on Tuesday, while breaking down in tears.
"He picked up the small child. I could see her arms and legs waving around.
"He struck her. She flew through the air in front of him."
Ms Knight said he had struck her so hard that afterwards the man had to walk several paces toward the crying child.
Opening the trial, crown prosecutor Erik Balodis said 28-year-old Ross had been trying to toilet train the girl in the weeks leading up to her death and became frustrated that she would not learn.
One visitor to the house was told by Ross that he tried to discipline the child by hitting her with an extension cord, a wooden spoon and making her run laps around the house, the jury heard.
"She just doesn't learn," Ross allegedly told the man.
Two days before Tanilla died in Wyong hospital, Ross had become angry because the child had failed to keep chickens in a cage in the backyard.
He kicked and hit her, made her run laps around the living room before she wet her pants, Mr Balodis told the jury.
The jury then heard Tanilla was put in a cold shower before Ross held her above the toilet bowl by one leg and screamed: "This is the toilet. You're f***ing filthy", despite protests from her mother Donna Deaves to stop.
He dragged her along the floor where she banged her head against a wooden door, the court heard.
Tanilla spent the last two days of her life lying in a pram with bruises and head injuries until an ambulance was finally called.
Donna Deaves, who the jury heard had pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of criminal negligence, will tell the jury what happened to her child on the days before she died, the court heard.
But defence barrister Sarah McNaughton SC told the jury in her opening statement to "keep in mind the crown's main witness Donna Deaves was police's other main suspect for causing the death of the child".
"Ms Deaves has also been known to be violent towards her children."
Ms McNaughton said Donna Deaves is getting a reduction in her sentence for helping the prosecution and that she gave her current version of events to the police a month after the death of her daughter.
"She had early given a different version," she said.
The trail before Justice Stephen Rothman continues on Wednesday.
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