A woman who hid her baby in a drawer for three years in England is sentenced to seven years in prison

a mother who she hid her baby for three years in a drawer has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in the United Kingdom, in a case that has shocked the country. The woman did not let her girl see sunlight or any other humans during that time.

According to local media, the little girl was found by chance in a state of severe malnutrition and unable to walk or speak in English. February 2023 by a partner of his mother when he was looking for the bathroom on the upper floor of the house and heard a sound similar to that of a baby.

Upon approaching to see where the sound was coming from, the man discovered the girl, who had a cleft palate and was severely dehydrated, locked in a drawer and called the police.

The first social services worker who went to the house after receiving the notice indicated, in a statement read before the court and reported by the British newspaper Guardianthat He was “overwhelmed” by what he saw when he arrived at the house and see the little girl.

“I was extremely shocked seeing the baby looking at me sitting in a drawer. “He was staring at me and rocking back and forth,” she said.

“I looked at her mother and asked, ‘Is that where you have her?’ The mother responded: ‘Yes, in the drawer.’ I was shocked that she showed no emotion and that the situation left her impassive,” he added.

That social worker revealed that the woman confessed that no one else had seen the girl: “(The situation) became a overwhelming horror being, probably, the only other face that (the girl) had seen apart from her mother’s,” he recalled.

The baby was born in the bathtub of the house in the English county of Cheshire in March 2020 although his birth was kept secret and was never registered.

The mother, whose identity cannot be revealed for legal reasons, told police that she had kept a relationship with the girl’s father and did not want him to know that she was pregnant. Later he put the baby in the box as a bed and, from time to time, he came over to feed her cereal dissolved in milk using a syringe and change her diaper.

As time went by, the woman returned to work and was absent to take her other children to school, leaving the little girl unattended for hours, even alone during the day. christmas night while she and her other children stayed at their grandparents’ house.

When she was examined by doctors, the little girl could not crawl, walk, speak or make sounds to communicate, in addition to having weakened muscles and swollen feet, with a serious delay in her development.

Prosecutor Rachel Worthington indicated that “this girl has never had a birthday gift, a Christmas gift or recognizes anything these days. She has not had any interaction with her siblings. She had not been exposed to sunlight or fresh air and “didn’t respond to her own name when they found her.”