THE mother of tragic Huddersfield toddler Sanam Navsarka told police she didn’t get medical help for the injured two-year-old because she feared the youngster would be taken into care.

Zahbeena Navsarka told detectives investigating Sanam’s death last May that her boyfriend Subhan Anwar wouldn’t let her take the two-year-old to hospital even when she was unable to walk.

“He was just like shouting at me, ‘No we can’t. Do you want her to end up in care?’” said Navsarka during her police interviews.

Navsarka described her daughter’s legs as going “floppy” and said she told Anwar that they needed to go to hospital.

“He says ‘stop being stupid. We can’t take her with those bruises on her face,’” she told police.

Navsarka was asked why she didn’t take her daughter to the doctor or get the doctor out.

“I were just afraid that she might end up in care,” she replied.

“He (Anwar) was like shouting at me saying they were going to take her into care and he was like stopping me from going.”

After the emergency services went to the couple’s home in Riddings Road, Deighton, it was found that the dead child had suffered more than 100 injuries including fractures to her arms and legs.

Navsarka and Anwar, both 21, have denied murdering the youngster.

Yesterday a jury at Bradford Crown Court heard a series of lengthy police interviews with the child’s mum.

Navarska claimed that Anwar, who had moved in with her after leaving his pregnant wife, had been responsible for putting her daughter in a dark storage cupboard because she wasn’t walking about or playing with other children.

Although she initially said it had only been for a few minutes she later suggested that the girl may have been left in the cupboard for up to half an hour.

“He grabbed her saying if you’re not going to play I’ll put you in there,” said Navsarka.

At first she told police it had happened only once, but later she said it was about four times.

“I used to like try pushing past him because he wouldn’t let me go to get her out,” she told police.

Navarska said when she challenged Anwar about bruises suffered by her daughter he told her that the girl kept falling off the bed.

But she later alleged that she had seen Anwar slap her daughter’s face and drop the child “quite hard” on to the floor when her legs were bent underneath her.

She said her daughter was probably scared of Anwar, who she described as “controlling” because he was shouting at her, smacking her and telling her to do what he said.

Navsarka maintained that her daughter suffered injuries only after Anwar moved in with her.

On the night of the child’s death Navsarka said Anwar had put Sanam in the bath, but after he went upstairs to check on her he came back down screaming with the toddler.

She said Anwar told her he had found the girl under the water and claimed she was having a fit.

The couple tried to resuscitate the youngster after contacting the emergency services, but Navsarka said “loads of water” was coming out of the child’s mouth.

Earlier this week the jury heard Anwar’s police interviews in which he claimed to have been scared of his girlfriend.

He denied causing the child’s injuries although he accepted doing bad things like putting the toddler in the cupboard and slapping Sanam.

“Zahbeena slapped her many more times. Zahbeena left her in the storeroom many times,” he told police.

The trial continues.