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<div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Elisa Baker, 47, who pleaded guilty to killing her Australian step-daughter Zahra Baker (pictured) in North Carolina in 2010, is trying to appeal her conviction</b></span></div>
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<h1><span style="color:#660000;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">&#8216;I was a good mamma&#8217; <span style="font-size:large;">&#8211; </span></span><span style="font-size:large;"><b>Elisa Baker convicted for killing her Australian step-daughter Zahra Baker in North Carolina in 2010</b></span></span></h1>
<h1><span style="color:#660000;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">Zahra &#8216;had beaten cancer twice&#8217;</span></span></h1>
<h1><span style="font-size:large;"> <span style="color:#0c343d;"> Elisa Baker, 47, pleaded guilty to killing her step-daughter Zahra in 2010<br />
Zahra Baker, 10, was murdered and dismembered in North Carolina<br />
Elisa now says she was rushed into signing a plea deal for the murde<br />
She said she keeps pictures of Zahra in her prison cell </span> </span><br />
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<p><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Elisa (pictured) pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2011 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison</b></span></p>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">A woman who murdered and dismembered her 10-year-old stepdaughter is appealing her conviction, arguing that she was &#8216;a good mamma.&#8217;</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Elisa Baker, 47, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2011 in North Carolina and was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing her Australian stepdaughter Zahra Baker.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">She now claims that she was rushed into signing the plea deal and is refusing to take responsibility for the gruesome murder of Zahra, according to <a class="" style="font-weight:bold;" href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/zahra-baker-easy-conscience-of-child-killer/news-story/8689c5941a629896966437e7e314716c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Daily Telegraph</a>.</span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>She now claims that she was rushed into signing the plea deal and is refusing to take responsibility for the gruesome murder of Zahra (pictured)</b></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Baker said in a recent jailhouse interview that she keeps pictures of Zahra, who had survived cancer twice, in her prison cell, the Daily Telegraph reported.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;Why would she haunt me? I was a good mamma,&#8217; she said.</span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size:small;">Although the time period for an appeal has expired, Elisa is attempting to build an appeal case anyway – which, if granted, would be rare but not entirely impossible.</span></p>
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<p><b>The plea agreement signed by Elisa Baker for the murder of Zahra.</b></p>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Elisa said in a recent jailhouse interview that she keeps pictures of Zahra (pictured) in her prison cell </b></span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>&#8216;Why would she haunt me? I was a good mamma,&#8217; Elisa (pictured) said of keeping the images in her cell</b></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Zahra was living in Wagga Wagga, NSW, with her father, Adam Baker, before they moved to the United States after Mr Baker met Elisa online.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Mr Baker and Elisa married once they immigrated but within two years Zahra was dead after being abused and tortured by her stepmother, police said.</span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size:small;">Zahra, who had lost a leg and her hearing to bone cancer, was killed and her remains were scattered across two counties in North Carolina, reports said.</span></p>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Zahra was living in Wagga Wagga, NSW, with her father, Adam Baker, (pictured) before they moved to the United States after Mr Baker met Elisa online</b></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Elisa&#8217;s attorney Scott Reilly said the evidence against his client was &#8216;overwhelming&#8217; and he believes that if the case is appealed and brought to trial that she could be sentenced to life in prison.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Zahra&#8217;s ashes were sent back to Australia in 2013 and scattered into the ocean at Nobbys Beach in Newcastle – decision that was made without informing her mother, Emily Dietrich, according to <a class="" style="font-weight:bold;" href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/family-kept-in-dark-over-remains/news-story/f83193b08ec725ca06ba35b1024d9259" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Daily Telegraph</a>.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Mr Baker, who was deported back to Australia in 2012 after allegedly committing several crimes and now lives in western Sydney, didn&#8217;t tell Ms Dietrich about the whereabouts of their daughter&#8217;s remains, the report said. </span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Zahra&#8217;s ashes were sent back to Australia in 2013 and scattered into the ocean at Nobbys Beach in Newcastle – decision that was made without informing her mother, Emily Dietrich (pictured right), according to reports</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:small;"><b>Part of a memorial shrine set up after Zahra disappeared in 2010.</b></span></div>
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Elisa Baker, Stepmother who pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering 10-year-old cancer survivor Zahra Baker plans to appeal her conviction
