MOM LEFT BABY ALONE IS FREE AS JUDGE SAYS'THE PM MAKES SIMIL

[Daanyeer]

Mother who left baby girl alone for an hour every day is spared jail as judge says 'even the Prime Minister' makes similar mistakes

Aysiea Mahroof, 27, left her daughter while she took her older children on the school run and didn't realise it was illegal
'If I don't do it again will you let me go?' she told police when she was arrested for child neglect
Her sentence could have been up to 10 years in prison but Judge Manning-Davies said even the PM forgot his child once
Mr Cameron left his eldest Nancy at The Plough near Chequers by mistake three months ago

By Martin Robinson
PUBLISHED: 11:25 GMT, 23 July 2012 | UPDATED: 15:01 GMT, 23 July 2012

A mother who abandoned her seven-month-old baby at home for an hour every day has been spared jail after a judge told her even Prime Minister David Cameron left his child in a pub once.

Aysiea Mahroof, 27, left her daughter while she took her older children on the school run and didn't realise it was illegal saying 'If I don't do it again, can I go?' when she was first arrested by police.
But today Judge Vivian Manning-Davies told Mahroof her conviction for child neglect was similar to David Cameron leaving his eight-year-old daughter Nancy behind after a family outing to a village pub for Sunday lunch near Chequers three months ago.
Mr Cameron presumed that Nancy was in the car with his wife Samantha, while she thought that their daughter had jumped in with the Prime Minister. All the time she was in the pub's toilet.
'A parent makes mistakes in relation to children. I include myself in that statement,' the judge said.

'Recently, by way of an example, the Prime Minister left his own daughter in a pub.'

Mother-of-three Mahroof left her daughter for 40 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes each afternoon while she did the school run.

Her neighbours tipped-off police after seeing her leave her house in Swansea every day without the baby.

The young mother told officers she could not manage to get the baby’s buggy down the steps outside her house in the Townhil area of the South Wales city.

And she claimed she had no family help after being cut off by them because she refused to enter into an arranged marriage.

Mahroof wept in court as she admitted a charge of child neglect which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

But Judge Manning-Davies gave her a community order with 12 months supervision saying her only motive was to take her children to school.

He told the tearful mother: 'What this case is not, like so many in court, is that you left children for only self interest.

'In that situation, I would be sentencing you to a term of imprisonment.

'But this is not a case of you being an uncaring mother, quite the contrary.'

The judge cited David Cameron as an example of a parent who had done the same when he left his eight-year-old daughter Nancy in a pub after a family Sunday lunch.

Mr Cameron was there with wife Samantha, and children Nancy, Arthur, six, and 22-month-old Florence, just a few miles from his country residence Chequers in Buckinghamshire.

As they went to leave, Nancy went off to the toilet without telling them.

The Prime Minister was driven back to Chequers, which is two miles from the pub, with protection officers in one car, while Mrs Cameron drove their other children in another.

An insider said: 'It was a case of "Oh crikey I thought you had her" and "Oh crikey I thought YOU had her.'

A spokesman for the Prime Minister said he was ‘distraught’ when he realised what had happened and later confirmed that Mrs Cameron returned to the pub to pick up Nancy.

Speaking after the case, Mahroof, whose older children are seven and five, said she hadn’t realised leaving her baby alone was illegal.
'When I took my two children to school my heart was pounding when I did it. But I thought I was keeping her safe,' she said.

'No mother wants their child harmed but I didn’t realise it was the law not to leave them. I will never ever do that again.

'I adore my baby more than anything. She is a bright light for me and without her I wouldn’t be able to breathe.

'I want to thank the judge for understanding my feelings and what I am going through.'


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[TeAmo]

Didn't know it was illegal to do that, police need to mind their own buisness. The poor woman has no one else to hold the kids for her.

[jalaaludin5]

The judge made a valid point