An 7-year-old child from rural India presents with a 6-month history of intractable focal motor seizures and continuous jerking of the left arm lasting hours at a time (epilepsia partialis continua). MRI shows progressive right hemispheric atrophy with T2/FLAIR hyperintensity. The EEG pattern marked **A** in the diagram — focal polymorphic delta slowing and multifocal epileptiform discharges over one hemisphere — is characteristic of which condition?
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