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Woman avoids jail after pleading guilty to child neglect after children went hungry, suffered from head lice

The ACT Magistrates Court has sentenced a 52-year-old woman to an intensive corrections order after she pleaded guilty to charges of child neglect.

Court documents reveal two children in the woman's care showed signs of neglect over a period of months.

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