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Douglas woman admits abduction charge

Probation for 20-year-old who hid child missing from a care home

A Douglas woman’s been put on probation after admitting trying to hide a child missing from a care home.

 

Twenty-year-old Shannon Anne Louise Bateson of Clifton Terrace appeared before High Bailiff Jayne Hughes at Douglas courthouse.

 

She’d previously admitted abducting a person in care on 20 January last year, but left the Isle of Man before she could be sentenced.

 

Prosecution advocate Rebecca Cubbon told the court Bateson had effectively gone missing for 10 months before handing herself in to police.

 

The hearing was told Bateson had a party at her home on Tynwald Street in Douglas involving drink and drugs, but didn’t tell police the 15-year-old boy was there.

 

Officers were searching for him after care staff reported him missing.

 

Bateson’s advocate said her client had gone to the UK to see her family and support her mother but had realised her future was in the Isle of Man and so had returned to face the music.

 

Mrs Hughes noted Bateson had been subject to a conditional discharge at the time for a theft conviction – she imposed a year’s probation supervision for that offence and a concurrent one-year probation order for the abduction charge.

 

Bateson was also ordered to pay £125 costs.

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