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Court for teenager who left baby alone for hours

Eighteen-month-old found lying in vomit

A mother who left her baby alone to go drinking swore at police and asked officers “what have I done wrong?”, a court’s heard.

The 18-year-old woman can’t be named because doing so would identify her child.

She appeared before High Bailiff Jayne Hughes at Douglas courthouse, and admitted wilfully neglecting a child.

The court heard she’d stayed at the Ellan Vannin Hotel in Douglas, when she took her baby to hospital on 13 November.

Prosecution advocate James Robinson said the next day, after her baby had been discharged from Noble’s Hospital, the woman went out to meet a barman from Jaks she’d been having a relationship with.

The hearing was told staff at the hotel rang police and let officers into the room after hearing the baby crying, and discovered the 18-month old child lying in its own vomit.

The girl’s mother returned three hours later, and shouted at police when they asked why she’d left her child alone.

Mrs Hughes bailed the woman in the sum of £500, and committed her to be sentenced at a Court of General Gaol Delivery on 11 December.

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