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Home Alone On Purpose!

Dateline: England, UK
From: BBC News
Via: The Honor Network

Home Alone On Purpose!
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Quote:
The court heard the woman had stocked her fridge and freezer with pizza, oven chips and microwave meals before she went abroad between April and June. Of her £100 allowance, £60 was spent almost immediately on school dinners for the period her mother was away. She spent most of the remaining £40 on clothes and CDs, magistrates were told.

Social services were alerted to the girl's situation after only two days and arranged for her father, also the woman's ex-husband, to look after her for the remainder of her mother's holiday.

He said he was unaware his daughter had been left home alone.
Shaun Spencer, prosecuting, said the mother was interviewed by police three days after her return and she "apportioned blame for the situation on everybody else apart from herself".

"She accepted no responsibility. She stated that she left the country for six weeks, stating that it was cheaper to do that than go for four weeks.
"She confirmed that she didn't want her daughter to stay with her father because she was concerned about his drinking.

"It is noteworthy that later during the interview she went back on this and said she had, in her mind, made arrangements for the father to look after her daughter for three of the six weeks.


For more of click: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7195416.stm
Aventinian

A fourteen year old is perfectly capable of looking after him or herself.
carol

agreed although would need to be a responsible 14 year old, my eldest boy is nearly 15, and there's no way on this earth I would leave him home and alone

regards

Carol
Cymro

Why've you got it down as being England? The stupid bint who left her daughter alone was Welsh and in Wales.

No way should a 14 year old be loeft alone for that time length. Fine left alone during the day etc, at a stretch I'd even agree for 1 night if parents wheren't far. But for that long while mother is away abroad? Sorry, that's just stupid. As she herself claimed, she isn't good with rules. Says it all really!
Celtic Indian

Aventinian wrote:
A fourteen year old is perfectly capable of looking after him or herself.


For 6 weeks ??? Aye right !

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