Mum facing jail for leaving baby alone

Kellie · Last edited by Kellie on Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:56 pm; edited 1 time in total

Why do people do this?

Source Daily mirror

Maid Marian · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject:

This is absolutely appalling and she deserves to receive a jail sentence

If people aren't prepared to take on the responsibilities that having children brings then they shouldn't have them

Regardless of her circumstances I'm sure there would have been someone who could have looked after her son if she wanted some time on her own

Maureenl · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject:

Deserves to have the child taken from her

Dawn · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject:

discraceful

what i want to know is... why cant she be named

should be named and shamed

Maid Marian · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject:

Her name is Kelly Tollerton 045.gif

It's the name of the child that can't be released.

pixies · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject:

that is so sad hoow a person can leave a child of 2 alone in a house while she partys . thee poor child , wish him the best 4 the future with a family that wil love an take care of him xx

MrsBelch · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:19 am Post subject:

Sorry the child is retarded that is too sad. It's probably the mom's fault.

frys_red_jacket · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:45 am Post subject:

she totally deserved having the child taken off her,shes definitly an unfit mother

tellconer · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

how often do we hear of children been left home alone, jail her and perhaps others might take note, but then again some people are so selfish they just think about themselves

Kellie · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject:

The poor little lad, its just a good job a neighbour noticed before he ended up drowning

A mother who left her two-year-old son home alone so she could spend a weekend partying has been jailed for at least six months.

Kelly Tollerton's son was caged in the kitchen by a baby gate and had to rummage in rubbish bags for food "like a dog".

He was discovered three days later when water from an overflowing sink filled with pots poured into a neighbour's flat below.

Police broke in and found the boy sobbing and standing in several inches of water wearing a filthy Babygro surrounded by dirty nappies and broken crockery. He was shivering with cold and had been using a pile of dirty washing as a bed.

Sentencing her at Lincoln Crown Court, Recorder William Harbage QC said: "It defies belief that any mother can treat her child in that way. In my opinion, you are not a fit mother."

The court had heard that Tollerton's actions were a "deliberate act of abandonment so that she could go out and party".

Tollerton, 22, said she and her 40-year-old boyfriend partied all weekend but their babysitter had let them down.

There was also criticism of the social services and health visitors and an investigation launched after it emerged the boy was placed on an at-risk register at the age of two months because he was seriously underweight.

But social services ended contact with him when he started to attend nursery.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was put up for adoption and now, aged four, has started school.

Crazychick · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

Poor Boy

julie · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

Seems the mum has low intelligence and the child was on the at risk register at one time, not sure some people should be allowed to have children TBH