MUM FEEDS SON, 9, COKE AND HEROIN

A MOTHER who gave her nine-year-old son heroin and crack cocaine was told yesterday she faces a lengthy jail term. unkie Emma Kelly, 31, plied her child with the drugs for more than two years. She also drove him around as she went in search of a fix for herself, a court heard. But social workers took no action despite visiting her home seven times - even though the boy looked extremely ill. When Kelly and her son were arrested for shoplifting in January 2005 police found their home was littered with drug-taking materials. Spoons and burnt foil with traces of the drugs had been left on the floor of the child's room in the two-bedroom house. The lad, then 11, was underdeveloped, physically and emotionally, and "dependent on opiates". Prosecutor Ibitayo Adebayo said: "His pupils were enlarged, which showed he was going through withdrawal for the drugs. "He was treated for anxiety and opiate withdrawal in hospital." Kelly admitted giving her son heroin and cocaine and two counts of cruelty to a child.
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