Isabelle Craine was so badly injured her mother says she suffers every day and will never develop.

Isabelle's father, Stephen Craine, was yesterday given a 12-month jail sentence suspended for two years after a judge accepted he panicked as he tried to revive her.

Northampton Crown Court heard how Craine, of Wellingborough, started shaking her after she woke early one morning in May, 2007.

She was having trouble breathing and was bleeding from the nose. In his efforts to revive her Craine started shaking the one-month-old girl.

He eventually called an ambulance and Isabelle was taken to Kettering General Hospital and was later transferred to the specialist unit at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Since the incident Isabelle's mother, Angelica De Bruin, has separated from Craine and moved back to her native Holland with the couple's three-year-old son Robert and Isabelle.

She said: "I cannot express in words how much Isabelle is suffering day in, day out.

"It has become increasingly difficult to lift Isabelle because of her weight and it will become harder without specialist equipment as the baby becomes older."

Craine, 46, of Chatsworth Drive, was sentenced yesterday after admitting inflicting grievous bodily harm on his daughter.

Sonia Woodley QC, prosecuting, said: "The prognosis for Isabelle is not clear, but extremely poor. She will never see, speak nor walk, she has severe difficulty understanding, problems with posture and language, epilepsy and is severely disabled which means she will never lead an independent life and will always be dependant on other people."

Sentencing Craine, Judge Peter Morrell said: "Whatever your personal remorse and sorrow may be, any sympathy that the court might have for you is far outweighed by the sympathy the court must have for
Isabelle, her mother and her brother. I have to ask myself whether the degree of culpability should outweigh the degree of harm you caused.
"In my judgement, what you did that night was the result of well-intentioned panic.

"Any fair-minded member of the public sitting where I am sitting now would think it unjust to send you to prison and I am not going to do so.
"However, the public will expect there to be a prison sentence and there will be one. "

Craine was also told to pay up to £5,000 in costs.