Woman escapes prosecution after leaving children at home for THREE WEEKS while she went on holiday - when the children were found there was no food left, no heating, no gas

ItGonBeK · 2015-08-07T19:15:24+00:00

Why the fuck did she get her kids back?!

Il128 · 2015-08-07T20:59:53+00:00

The mother had not intended to return until later in February, but came home early after being alerted that police and children’s services officers were investigating.

Imagine a man doing this...

rbxpecp · 2015-08-07T20:40:56+00:00

what is with the court system protecting sociopaths like this woman? just because it looks like a human, speaks like a human, and walks like a human, doesn't mean she's a fucking human

Farewell_Justice · 2015-08-07T20:30:09+00:00

Great. Let's put the kids back in the hands of their abuser.

PerniciousOne · 2015-08-08T01:19:16+00:00

She was planning on leaving them longer but received notice that the police were investigating. She left them in January, which is winter with no food, no method of heating the home.

Her children should be taken away from her.

nick012000 · 2015-08-08T12:59:04+00:00

Another mother who left her teenage daughter with a freezer full of pizza and oven chips for six weeks while she flew off to visit her toyboy abroad also escaped prison in 2008.

The woman left her 14-year-old daughter £100 to live on and was found guilty of neglect after a two day trial.

But she received a suspended sentence of 13 weeks' custody and was ordered to do 130 hours unpaid work and pay £450 costs.

To be fair, this one seems reasonable, as long as the girl in question still had some method of transport to school. 14 is old enough to reasonably expect her to be able to look after herself, and pizza and chips isn't a terribly healthy diet, but it'll keep her alive, and she can just stick the leftovers in the fridge to have for breakfast and lunch the next day.

Pizza tastes better cold anyway. ;)

TheMer0vingian · 2015-08-08T03:27:18+00:00

The one kid was 13 years old and the other one was 10. There was no infant that needed coddling, and a 13 year old is more than capable of baby sitting a 10 year old and is legally able to do so. This was still poor insight on her part thinking that 3 week duration would be fine to leave them alone, but the situation is not nearly as egregious as some people seem to be making it out to be. We also do not know the details of the circumstance. It says there was not much food left in the home, but she may have left money for the 13 year old to go buy more when they ran out. It says the heating was not working but it's fucking August in England and you don't need heating. These are not helpless infants who are going to die if left alone, the article is clearly slanted to make it sound as bad as possible and people seem to be eating that shit up without a second thought. This was definitely a dumb decision on the part of the mom, but is not as egregious as people are making it out to be, and certainly not something kids should be put into foster care for, give me a break.

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