See What This Mum Gave Up For Booze & Sex With A Stranger

A mum who left her sick 3-month-old baby to die while she had sex and got drunk upstairs with a man she’d just met at the bus stop has avoided jail.

Mirror UK reports;

Yvonne Adkins, 32, left three-month-old Chantelle lying in her baby rocker as she had a boozy nine hour sex session with a man she met a bus stop just two weeks earlier.

A court heard she swigged whisky before romping with her lover – known only as Peter – while her sick daughter was downstairs at her home in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent.

She awoke the 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.

The court heard 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 also heard Adkins went upstairs with Peter and left her baby alone for nine hours even though she suffered from reflux and vomiting.

Prosecutor Andrew Easteal 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. 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.

She started sending texts at 7.13am and at 7.27am discovered her daughter was cold and not breathing.

Paramedics were called but were unable to resuscitate the child and Chantelle was pronounced dead at 8.05am.

A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a “sudden and unexpected death in infancy”.

The court heard lying Adkins told the authorities that Chantelle had been sleeping in a Moses basket at the end of her bed. But she later came clean and admitted her wrongdoing.

Nicola Bell, defending, 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: “…This is a mother who has lost a child. She deals with that on a daily basis.”

Yvonne pleaded guilty to cruelty of a child at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday but was spared jail after being given 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, with 18 months supervision.