A mum who kept her baby daughter hidden in a drawer for the first three years of her life has been jailed for more than seven years.
The judge said the woman’s cruelty ‘totally defies belief’ A mum who kept her baby daughter hidden in a drawer for the first three years of her life has been jailed. The girl ‘hadn’t known daylight or fresh air and didn’t respond to her own name when she was first found’ at the family home in Cheshire, prosecutors said. Jailing the woman, who admitted child cruelty, for seven-and-a-half-years Judge Steven Everett told her: ‘To my mind what you did totally defies belief.
The man left the home but alerted family members and later that day social services attended and found the child in the drawer of the bed. In a statement, the social worker said she saw the child sitting in the drawer and asked the mother whether that was where she kept her daughter. ‘She replied matter of factly “yes, in the drawer”,’ the social worker said. ‘I was shocked the mother did not show any emotion and appeared blase about the situation.
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