A teenage mother has admitted causing the death of her 20-month-old daughter in Brighton.

So according to many articles this mother who I believe is from the UK, left her 20 month old baby in the house alone for 6 days while she partied for her 18th birthday. It says she came home to find her baby dead. She later found out her baby had the flu and due to neglect the baby died .Here are my questions, thoughts and feelings on this topic: 

First, I am so heart broken due to this baby girls death. I myself have a 20 month old and first putting myself in the shoes of that baby I literally feel sick. If you have kids, nieces, nephews, godbabies any child around the age of 2 in your life you can probably relate to how I’m feeling right now. Can you imagine leaving them for 6 whole days? Not only being sick but what she got into in those 6 days just being a child? How often she cried, called out mommy? Maybe tried to feed herself or get a drink. How she probably cried herself to sleep woke up and cried again. How scared and alone she may have felt. I’m thinking about how my baby would be and my heart is literally breaking into a million pieces. 

For the mother ;

Did you not think about your baby the entire time? Could you not get 1 person to watch her while you went out? Not one?! You didn’t even leave the baby food or water? Did she ever cross your mind in those 6 days? Was the plan to come home to a dead baby? Was she too much for you? You didn’t want to see your baby? Check on her? Hear her voice? You never said this isn’t right I need to get home? How are you two bond? The love you had for her didn’t overpower the celebration? It didn’t over power the partying and drinking? It didn’t make you shake that decision in The first place. 

What made you make a final decision to leave your 1 year old in the home alone for 6 days. What did you tell people that asked where the baby was? 

Did you ever think about what she could have been doing at any moment? If she was okay? When you got back did you really expect walk through your front door and see your baby standing there waiting for you? Or sound asleep? 

She was only charged with manslaughter so I’m pretty sure her punishment won’t be what she deserves. 

What are your thoughts on this? 

Do you think she has mental problems? And I know that is like a go to question. Like, every time someone do some off the wall Sh*t we question their mental as an excuse and not something legit but I legit think she may have mental problems or depression, maybe overwhelmed as a mother..... something is wrong, something is not all the way there or right with her. 

As I stated before I am a mother and I would never in a million years think to detach myself from my child for 6 days, leave her alone to fin for herself and just go live life without her. She didn’t leave her with a sitter and not call or check on her for 6 days, she didn’t leave her food or water, she did nothing to ensure that she knew what she was doing was wrong but she still wanted to make it right as best she could. I don’t think any mother in their right mind would do something like this. 

Leaving your child alone to me implies that 

1. She had no support because she had absolutely no one to leave the child with. 
2. Maybe she did have someone to leave her with but she didn’t like the child, wasn’t connected emotionally to the child, and didn’t care for the child and maybe she rather the child be dead than alive. 
3. Maybe she intentionally did it because she was overwhelmed but she didn’t expect to kill the child. Maybe she just wanted time away but obviously went about it the wrong way. 

Either way in all of these “maybes” she lacked a connection, love and care for this child. 

Do you think she was disconnected from the child? 

She was overwhelmed as a mother? 

She didn’t have any help? 

And I’m not implying any of these questions should or would justify her actions I’m just trying to get a feel for what you think she was going through to do something like this.