Mum left baby at home to die while she went shopping and to a car wash
Stacey Davis, 35, left one-year-old Ethan Davis in his cot for two hours while she ran errands and visited a park. The child was abandoned at home alone while trapped in a warm room that featured no open windows or running fans.
He was rushed to the hospital where he was shortly pronounced dead. Davis, of Wiltshire, appeared at Salisbury Crown Court on Thursday, December 1 of this year where she was jailed for two years for child cruelty offences. She had previously admitted the offence at a previous hearing in May 2022. She highlighted that the findings were consistent with Davis smoking the drug regularly around Ethan. Defence barrister Mark Ashley said his client's case was a "classic example of post-natal depression".
He told the court that Davis has been working with Turning Point to cut out her cannabis use, but has smoked it this week due to her "stress levels being particularly high". Describing Davis' behaviour as "thoroughly selfish", Judge Parkes KC imposed a two-year immediate prison sentence, for which she will serve half in custody.
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