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A shameless mother who left her sick
baby to die while she had sex and got
drunk upstairs with a man she barely
knew has avoided jail. Yvonne first denied the allegations, but later
pleaded guilty to charges of neglecting her
child for a sex romp.
Photo: SWNSbaby to die while she had sex and got
drunk upstairs with a man she barely
knew has avoided jail. Yvonne first denied the allegations, but later
pleaded guilty to charges of neglecting her
child for a sex romp.
Yvonne Adkins, a 32-year-old, left her three-
month-old baby, Chantelle, lying in a baby
rocker, as she had a boozy nine-hour sex
session with a man she met at a bus stop just
two weeks earlier.
According to Mirror.co.uk, a court heard she
swigged whisky before romping with her lover,
known only as Peter, while her poor daughter
was downstairs at her home in Meir, Stoke-on-
Trent, England.
Yvonne woke up next morning on May 8 to find her baby dead in her rocker in the lounge,
dressed only in a tracksuit with no blanket or
bed clothes.
However, the heartless mum pleaded guilty to
cruelty of a child at Stoke-on-Trent Crown
Court yesterday. But she was spared jail after
being given 18 months in prison, suspended
for two years, with 18 months supervision.
Judge David Fletcher said: “Your desire to
engage in some sexual activity with someone
you hardly knew resulted in you leaving your
child downstairs when you knew it was not
appropriate to do that.
“You made a catastrophic decision that you will have to live with for the rest of your life.”
Investigations showed that Chantelle had
suffered numerous health problems since she
was born in January last year and was due to
see a consultant the following month.
The court heard Adkins went upstairs with
Peter and left her baby alone for nine hours
even though she suffered from reflux and
vomiting.
Andrew Easteal, the prosecutor, told the court:
“Chantelle was placed in a baby rocker on the
floor in the living room between 7.30pm and
8.30pm on May 7.
While her partner Peter left for work by 5am,
she slept back and forgot her baby. Photo: SWNS
“A man called Peter arrived at 8.45pm. He was
someone she became acquainted with at a bus stop two weeks prior.
“At 10pm the defendant and Peter went
upstairs.
“The two had sexual intercourse and drank
whisky and she fell asleep.
“The defendant was well aware her three-
month-old daughter suffered from reflux and
vomiting and other complications.
“Chantelle was due to see a consultant on June 15.
”The court heard Adkins’s lover got up and
went to work at 5am while the defendant fell
back to sleep.
It is reported that she started sending texts at 7.13am and at 7.27am discovered her
daughter was cold and not breathing.
Paramedics were called in but were unable to
resuscitate the child. Chantelle was
pronounced dead at 8.05am.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of
death as a “sudden and unexpected death in
infancy”.
But, lying Adkins told the authorities that
Chantelle had been sleeping in a Moses basket
at the end of her bed, she later came clean
and admitted her wrongdoing.
In defending the randy mother, Nicola Bell,
said the defendant, who has no previous
convictions, was not a mother who ‘consciously and consistently ignored the needs of her young child’.
She added: “She was reckless in her attention
towards the child. She prioritised herself
momentarily over the child with devastating
consequences. This is a mother who has lost a
child. She deals with that on a daily basis.”
Councillors on Wednesday described
Chantelle’s death as ‘tragic’ and promised a
full review.
“Chantelle was placed in a baby rocker on the
floor in the living room between 7.30pm and
8.30pm on May 7.
While her partner Peter left for work by 5am,
she slept back and forgot her baby. Photo: SWNS
“A man called Peter arrived at 8.45pm. He was
someone she became acquainted with at a bus stop two weeks prior.
“At 10pm the defendant and Peter went
upstairs.
“The two had sexual intercourse and drank
whisky and she fell asleep.
“The defendant was well aware her three-
month-old daughter suffered from reflux and
vomiting and other complications.
“Chantelle was due to see a consultant on June 15.
”The court heard Adkins’s lover got up and
went to work at 5am while the defendant fell
back to sleep.
It is reported that she started sending texts at 7.13am and at 7.27am discovered her
daughter was cold and not breathing.
Paramedics were called in but were unable to
resuscitate the child. Chantelle was
pronounced dead at 8.05am.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of
death as a “sudden and unexpected death in
infancy”.
But, lying Adkins told the authorities that
Chantelle had been sleeping in a Moses basket
at the end of her bed, she later came clean
and admitted her wrongdoing.
In defending the randy mother, Nicola Bell,
said the defendant, who has no previous
convictions, was not a mother who ‘consciously and consistently ignored the needs of her young child’.
She added: “She was reckless in her attention
towards the child. She prioritised herself
momentarily over the child with devastating
consequences. This is a mother who has lost a
child. She deals with that on a daily basis.”
Councillors on Wednesday described
Chantelle’s death as ‘tragic’ and promised a
full review.
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