Boy, 3, found wandering the street naked, covered in faeces, and pleading “Can I come with you? I need help”

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A naked, faeces covered little boy was found wandering the streets in Derbyshire town, UK, pleading for help from passersby.

He
looked very skinny and pale and was soon approached by a woman who was
with her own child.
He said to the woman: “Can I come with you? I need
help”. The woman then asked where his mother was and he replied that ”
she always goes to sleep”.

The concerned woman then
called the police.

The boy’s mother later came out to find him and took
him home. When police and social services got to the boy’s home, they
found him asleep, lying next to a box of vomit. They also came across
diarrhea (probably the little boy’s excrement) on the landing of the
house.

The mother was tried at Derby Crown
Court. She pleaded guilty to one count of child neglect and was jailed
for six months.

Before the sentencing, the Judge, Jonathan Bennett said
to the boy’s mother:

 “The incident itself is a
harrowing one. The woman was with her own little boy when she then
meets your little boy that is covered in faeces. He was completely lost,
had no clothing on whatsoever and appeared to her to have no road
sense. The little boy said to her ‘can I come with you? I need help and
she sensed the boy was in danger. She had to help him, he was in a
dreadful state and was exposed to tremendous danger.

“I
accept that you were in an abusive relationship at the time and that
you had your hands full but the duty of the court is to protect the most
vulnerable people in our society and this little boy was particularly
vulnerable.”

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