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IN OCTOBER 2016, when Evie McMahon was just eight months old, her mum, Lorien Norman, called the police and said she was about to throw her baby girl off the balcony.
When officers arrived, they found Evie had been severely bashed with a kitchen utensil and was covered in scratches.
Now, almost two years since the harrowing incident, her father Shane McMahon has spoken about his daughters road to recovery.
It was on October 21, 2016, that Shane received the phone call no parent ever wants to get.
Detectives told the dad to get to the Womens and Childrens Hospital in Adelaide as soon as he could because his daughter was in the hospital with life threatening injuries.
They told me she was awake but had severe head injuries, he told news.com.au.
Lorien was facing up to 13 years in prison for assaulting her baby with a spoon in her hand, but South Australian judge Jack Costello said her offence did not warrant a jail term.
While any assault of a child, particularly one of such a tender age and vulnerability, by a parent stands as a gross breach of trust, your offending is nevertheless far from the most serious of offending of this type in terms of the degree of force involved and the duration of the offending, Judge Costello told the court in September, 2017.
Adding, You have also had a significant history of drug (particularly cannabis) and alcohol abuse. Despite your troubled and somewhat dissolute past life there is guarded cause for optimism in that you have taken steps to turn your life around.
You are clearly remorseful for your actions, he ended.
This is a game to her, Mr McMahon said, speaking of text messages he received in the days following Miss Normans sentence.
Im not in jail, the text message from Miss Norman to Mr McMahon read. Whats your next move?
Before responding, Miss Norman sent another message saying shed made it and would have part custody within a year, despite having everyone on social media against her.