Mother jailed after baby she left unsupervised died of drugs overdose
A mother whose baby died of a heroin and methadone overdose after she left him unsupervised to go on a drug binge was today jailed for five years.
Sabrina Ross, a former prostitute, would regularly pass out at her home in Bristol, leaving 14-month old son Rio well within reach of Class A drugs and their substitutes, a court heard.
Drug binge: Sabrina Ross left her 14-month-old son alone and took heroin
On the evening the child died she left the house three times to score drugs and in the morning discovered the baby dead and clutching his Winnie the Pooh toy.
Ross had taken 16 rocks of crack and two wraps of heroin with a male friend that evening, before falling asleep unaware that the child had a "free run" of the house.
Jailing Ross, who admitted manslaughter at Bristol Crown Court, Judge Roderick Evans said she had created an environment that was "entirely unsafe for a child".
