DON'T COME HOME ALONE; Mum warned to stay away.Byline: VICTORIA MURPHY Mur·phy , William Parry 1892-1987. American physician. He shared a 1934 Nobel Prize for discovering that a diet of liver relieves anemia. FURIOUS neighbours of the drink and drug binge mum who left her kids alone yesterday warned her: Don't come home. Rebecca Stevenson, 22, walked free with a suspended jail sentence jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison on Monday after abandoning her children - aged three months to four years - for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock while she and pals downed wine and snorted cocaine. But outraged neighbours now say she won't be welcome in Blackburn, Lancs - and if she does return they hope she moves on soon. Mum-of-three Jane Tofts, 35, said: "I hope she doesn't come back to the neighbourhood. "All of us round here are just disgusted at what she did. "She won't be welcome back this way again. And if she does come back the neighbours will be making sure she doesn't stay." Next-door neighbour Chester Murphy, 40, who has children and six grandchildren with his wife Julie, 50, added: "That woman is not fit to be a mother and she is not fit to live in our street. If she stays we would move out. We hope she sees sense and moves on." Preston crown court heard how single mum Stevenson left her two boys and two girls to fend for Verb 1. fend for - argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike" defend, support argue, reason - present reasons and arguments themselves while she went out with friends. The alarm was raised by neighbours when her eldest daughter was spotted hanging out of the window and sobbing: "Where's mummy?" Stevenson's stepdad Paul Fielding, broke into the house to find a one-yearold soaked in urine in his cot and the three-month-old covered in sick. Police photos of the home showed tiny footprints in a pile of powdered milk which one of the girls had tried to mix for the baby. Another showed chairs lined up against a kitchen worktop worktop Noun a surface in a kitchen, usually the top of a fitted kitchen unit, which is used for food preparation Also: (work surface) worktop n → encimera which the children used to climb up and get food. CURFEW Local Michelle Latham, 46, said: "When I saw the pictures, I was disgusted. As a mum it makes me furious. No one knew there were children in that house. If I'd known, I'd have said someone should have gone round to find out what was going on." Stevenson admitted child neglect and was given a 20-week jail sentence suspended for two years. She is staying with friends and has an 8pm-6am curfew. Christina Crosland, 27, who lives nearby, said: "She should have got a lot more of a punishment. I can't believe she didn't go to jail." CAPTION(S): WALKING FREE Mum Stevenson |
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