A woman identified as Yvonne Adkins left her sick baby to die while she had sex and got drunk upstairs with a man she barely knew.
Yvonne Adkins
Yvonne Adkins, 32, left three-month-old Chantelle lying in her baby rocker as she had a boozy nine hour sex session with a man she met a bus stop just two weeks earlier.
A court heard she swigged whisky before romping with her lover - known only as Peter - while her poorly daughter was downstairs at her home in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent.
She awoke the next morning on May 8 to find her baby dead in her rocker in the lounge, dressed only in a tracksuit with no blanket or bed clothes.
The heartless mum pleaded guilty to cruelty of a child at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday, Tuesday,August 10. But she was spared jail after being given 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, with 18 months supervision.
Judge David Fletcher said: "Your desire to engage in some sexual activity with someone you hardly knew resulted in you leaving your child downstairs when you knew it was not appropriate to do that.
"You made a catastrophic decision that you will have to live with for the rest of your life."
The court heard Chantelle had suffered numerous health problems since she was born in January last year and was due to see a consultant the following month.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a "sudden and unexpected death in infancy."