Drug user put methadone on baby's dummy
A WOMAN who put methadone on a baby’s dummy to stop him crying was jailed for three years, it emerged yesterday.
Susan Taylor, 29, admitted culpably and recklessly causing the child to ingest the heroin substitute, to the danger of his life, in 2008. Although she appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh in September, the case could not be reported until yesterday because her lesbian partner faced trial.
At Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Lynn Cowan, 28, haled a planned trial by admitting she had failed to tell medical staff the tot had been given methadone.
The 10-week-old child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, almost died.
Sheriff Alistair Noble jailed Cowan for eight months under the Children and Young Persons Act and two months for missing a previous court date. Last September, the High Court was told the couple, who have drug problems, regularly looked after the boy at his home in Leith.
Lord Bannatyne ordered Taylor’s three-year term to follow a 26-month sentence for a knifepoint bag snatch on a 66-year-old victim.