British woman jailed 5 years after 2-yr-old son drowned while she was browsing

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October 14, 2015 3:19 PM

An irresponsible mother in the UK has been jailed after she neglected her two year old son while browing and the boy drowned in a pond in her compound.

Drowning boy

A 31-year-old British woman, Claire Barnett, has been sentenced to five years in prison after her two-year-old son drowned in a pond while she was busy checking Facebook, reports Latest.

The sentence was handed down to Barnett by Judge Jeremy Richardson after she pleaded guilty to four charges of neglect.

The prosecutors had told the court that Barnett was on Facebook instead of supervising her 2-year-old son, Joshua, while he was in the back garden.

Prosecutors also told the court that Barnett was warned by relatives and social services to cover the pond because it was unsafe for her children.

Detectives found that at the time of the boy’s drowning, Barnett uploaded two photos to Facebook and talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

She later found the child drowned in the pond and attempted to resuscitate him but he passed away at the hospital.

Judge Richardson called Barnett’s parenting 'lamentably appalling' after hearing that she was also warned by social services in 2013 after two of her unsupervised children were nearly hit by a car while playing on a busy road.

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