I know it's taken for granted that mothers would lay there lives down for their kids, but when cases like this happen,makes one think about how many kids are being smothered slowly but have no voice, God be merciful,

Jailed: Mother who left toddler son, two, alone in a flooded kitchen while she spent the weekend partying
By Fiona Barton
Last updated at 2:30 PM on 27th June 2008




Jailed: Kelly Tollerton abandoned her two-year-old son home alone for the weekend
A mother who left her toddler son imprisoned and alone in a flooded kitchen for three days while she went out 'to party', was today jailed for 18 months.

Kelly Tollerton, a 23-year-old single mother of two, showed no emotion as the judge spoke of her 'deplorable and disgraceful' act in leaving her two-year-old child to scavenge for food in the bin and sleep on a pile of dirty laundry, while she spent the weekend with her boyfriend.

Recorder William Harbage QC said: 'It defies belief that any mother can treat her child in that way. In my opinion, you are not a fit mother.'

During the trial, the jury at Lincoln Crown Court heard that the boy, who is now four and has 'emotional and behavioural difficulties', was only discovered, sobbing and shaking with cold, when he managed to turn on a tap and the water seeped into the flat downstairs.

Police, called in by neighbours, arrived to find a horrifying scene.


The little boy, wearing just a filthy vest and pants, had been shut in the kitchen with a baby gate and was standing barefoot in several inches of water.

The first officer to arrive on the scene, PC Gary Hugo, said that when he looked through the letterbox the boy was 'clearly shaking as if he was cold.

He added: 'There was no one else in the flat. There were soiled nappies, broken crockery and plastic bags on the kitchen floor. Items of clothing were strewn everywhere. The smell was overpowering, making it very difficult to breathe.'

Felicity Gerry, prosecuting said: 'The boy was penned in that kitchen, scrabbling about in the rubbish bins, with food left on a plate for him - just like a dog.'

The harrowing discovery, in November 2006, came after a six-month period of neglect, during which the boy, who cannot be named, was starved of emotional stimulation and kept in the 'long-term filth' of the flat, Miss Gerry told the court yesterday.



Disgusting: The kitchen in which the toddler was left to rummage around in





Home of horror: The flat where Kelly Tollerton lived in Lincoln

It emerged during the trial that the child was put on the at risk register aged just two months after he was admitted to hospital because he was seriously underweight.

Social workers and health visitors later expressed concerns that both the boy and Tollerton's flat in Lincoln were dirty and that he spent a lot time strapped into a car-seat.


Accused: Emma Barton said Tollerton could 'rot in hell'. Tollerton claimed her ex-friend was meant to be looking after the baby
Miss Gerry said: 'She knew what to do but chose not to do it. Young girls like to party. We've all been out on the town enjoying ourselves with our friends.

'But young mothers can't or shouldn't, because they have a responsibility. Once you have a baby you, are responsible for it and have to bring it up.'

Tollerton, from Lincoln, was convicted earlier this month of child cruelty, neglect, abandonment and perverting the course of justice. She denied all charges.

Sentencing her yesterday, Mr Harbage said: 'Your treatment of your young son was deplorable and disgraceful. Your parenting was woefully inadequate.

'Your conduct arouses feelings of horror and revulsion among all right-thinking people, particularly parents, most of whom must make considerable sacrifices in their lives for their children.

'The evidence shows that you were more concerned with your own social life than catering for his needs or caring for him. You were too selfish and too lazy to look after him properly.'

The court heard that Tollerton was eventually found by police at the house of her boyfriend and claimed another woman, Emma Barton, had been looking after the toddler.

Miss Barton, 22, who had previously cared for the child at weekends, denied the arrangement, claiming she had not spoken to Tollerton for 'several months'.


Yesterday as her former friend was led away to start her sentence, Miss Barton said: 'She deserves to rot in hell. She deserves everything she gets.'

The court had heard that Tollerton, who ran away from home when she was 15, was pregnant with her first child before her 16th birthday. The father was 31.

At 18, after moving to a rented flat, she began a three-and-a-half-year relationship with a 36-year-old man and had a second child, who is understood to live with his father.

Patricia Harding, defending, claimed Tollerton had a low IQ, no family support and was 'inadequate' rather than selfish.

After the case, Sally French, of Lincolnshire Crown Prosection Service, said: 'It is a sad fact of life that there are so many people who are unable to have children.

'But there are people like Kelly Tollerton who are unable to understand the sacrifices that need to made and the joy a child can bring.'

The boy, who now lives with foster parents, has hearing difficulties and communicates through sign language.

Doctors are not able to tell whether his difficulties are due to autism or brought on by the trauma he endured at the hands of his mother.

The jury heard that his mother, a trainee beauty technician, had deliberately abandoned her child so that, 'in her own words,Tollerton could 'go out and party'.'

She is simply a disgrace to motherhood!

~Heartwrenching I tell You!! Thank God her Son Survived,this little girl in the link below wasnt so Lucky!!


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080627/tuk-neglect-case-mother-jailed-for-12-ye-dba1618.html


~12 years!! Outrageous . . .she'll prolly be out after serving 6yrs!!

~There should be a law that let them Rot In Jail for the rest of their natural lives,A remimder of what they did to those Children!!