A
woman who is about to get married, has shocked the world with her
actions after she abandoned her own kids just to be with a man she met
online.
The woman flew to Paris
A bride-to-be who left her two young sons alone for two days as she
travelled to Paris to meet a man she met on the Internet has been
spared jail, The Sun UK reports.
The woman left the boys, aged 11 and six, a pan of soup before she
went to the French capital to make arrangements to marry the man.
She was arrested when the younger child told his teacher his mother
was in France and he and his brother were at home on their own.
Bradford Crown Court, West Yorks., heard the mother, who cannot be
named, left home at 6am, intended to be back by midnight the following
day and rang them to see how they were getting on.
She flew to Paris from Manchester Airport – leaving the boys to
attend school by themselves and stay at home overnight on their own.
Prosecuting, Philip Adams told the court that when the six-year-old
told his teacher, the police were alerted and the children were
collected from their home and taken into social services accommodation.
Their mother, who was told by a friend that the police were on to
her, flew back early and was arrested when she arrived back the
following lunchtime.
The woman, who was in her 30s, made full admissions to the police, telling them she went to Paris to make arrangements to marry.
She wanted her children to stay with a family friend while she was
absent but they refused to go there and the older boy persuaded her that
they could manage.
She said she left a large pan of soup for the boys and some money.
In mitigation, her solicitor advocate Tom Rushbrooke said: “This lady made a terrible mistake and she realises that now.”
She had been left to fend for herself as a child and was bringing
up her sons to be resilient and to look after themselves, Mr Rushbrooke
told the court.
He said: “She is otherwise a very caring mother. They are well looked after, well fed and clothed.”
Mr Rushbrooke told the court the woman took documents to Paris to
be processed before the wedding and she still wanted the marriage to go
ahead.
She now had passports for both her sons and would take them with her next time she travelled to France.
He added her children were back with her from foster care and would be deeply affected if she went to prison.
The woman pleaded guilty to neglecting her sons over a two-day
period in March and was spared an immediate prison sentence after the
court heard she was otherwise a good mother and her children were now
back with her after a spell in foster care.
Sentencing the woman to a six month prison sentence, suspended for
12 months, Judge Robert Bartfield told her that immediate custody would
be destructive to her children as they had only recently returned from
care to live with her.
He told her: “You put the boys in significant danger by leaving them alone.”
Judge Bartfield also ordered that she undertakes a rehabilitation activity requirement with the probation service.
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