Mother who hid her baby in drawer for years jailed

A parent who kept her babe girl hidden successful a drawer for the archetypal 3 years of her beingness has been jailed for 7 years and six months for "extreme neglect".

The girl, who prosecutors said had "never known daylight oregon caller air", was lone discovered erstwhile a visitant to their location successful Cheshire heard her crying.

To support the girl, neither she nor members of her household tin beryllium identified.

The girl's mother, who admitted 4 charges of kid cruelty astatine a erstwhile hearing, was sentenced astatine Chester Crown Court.

Rachel Worthington of the Crown Prosecution Service said the kid did not respond to her ain sanction erstwhile found, and had been near unsocial for agelong periods to "fend for herself" without capable food.

The tribunal was told the miss was severely malnourished, to the constituent she looked similar a seven-month-old babe and not a three-year-old child.

She besides had a cleft palate and respective different aesculapian issues, which her parent had not sought attraction for.

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