A severely malnourished six-year-old girl suffered an "atrocity" of neglect before her lifeless, lice-ridden body, weighing just 18kg, was rushed to hospital, a court tasked with sentencing her mother has heard.

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Crystal Leanne Hanley, 49, faced the South Australian Supreme Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to criminal neglect causing death over the death of her six-year-old daughter, Charlie Nowland, in July 2022.

The mother-of-five also pleaded guilty to separate counts of criminal neglect relating to two other children.

Hanley, of Munno

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