Daily Record reports.Boyle claimed the cage was for the child’s own protection, Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard.Her neglect of the toddler only came to light after a four-year-old boy escaped from the flat by squeezing through a six-inch gap in the window, the Daily Record reports.
A passer-by found the older boy alone in soaked nightwear in a street in Newmilns, Ayrshire, on October 3, 2018.When taken to hospital to be checked over, medics discovered so many bruises they thought he may have blood cancer or a blood clotting disorder.Describing the scene at the property, Police Constable Adam Peppard said: “[The toddler’s] nappy was full and hanging low and he was upset.“[He] was within the makeshift cot – the bottom of the cot had been.
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