No Jail For Mum Who Left Kids To Go Drinking
published by lollywood on 7 October, 2011 - 19:14
A woman who abandoned her two young children in a car at night while she went drinking has been given a suspended prison sentence
Kayleigh McNaughton, 21, was arrested after returning to her unlocked vehicle from a bar.
She had left her nine-month-old baby strapped into a car seat and her three-year-old son in the passenger footwell.
Police had been called to the scene by a worried passer-by.
Officers said she was unsteady on her feet and smelled strongly of alcohol when she emerged from the nearby bar in Rusholme, Manchester, just after 3.30am last August.