Mother who left children for 24-hour binge avoids jail

A MOTHER who abandoned her four young children to go on a 24-hour drink and drug binge was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday.

Rebecca Stevenson, aged 22, of Blackburn, Lancashire, left her two sons and two daughters, aged between three months and four years, home alone to fend for themselves.

It was with “merciful good luck” that none of the children was seriously injured through her “absolute dereliction” of duty, Preston Crown Court heard.