A drunken mum was so wasted her five-year-old boy sought help from a neighbour. And when police were called the mum claimed she had epilepsy and the alcohol smell from her was "hand gel".
The 45-year-old from Weston-super-Mare, who Bristol Live is not naming to protect the identity of the child, pleaded guilty to child cruelty as well as assaulting an emergency worker. She appeared at Bristol Crown Court for sentence.
Judge William Hart handed her a seven-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months. He told her: "I think you recognise you deserve simply to be punished. If I punish you it seems to me it would be punishing him."
