A mother left her dying 13-year-old daughter watching TV quiz show Tipping Point to go to the pub, an inquiry has heard.
Sharon Goldie, 49, from Scotland, refused to let her teenage girl Robyn go to hospital and believed she was suffering from a ‘stomach bug’.
HOW IT HAPPENED
A fatal accident inquiry at Hamilton Sheriff Court was told Goldie left her watching TV before she went drinking.
When she returned to her home in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Robyn was unresponsive on the couch.
Goldie and her friend, Jim Duffy, sat outside drinking but when he checked on Robyn she was not breathing and rigor mortis had set in.
DEFENSE ARGUMENT
In evidence, Goldie claimed she believed Robyn was ‘exaggerating’ her symptoms in July 2018 and had left her in the house to go out.
She said: ‘I thought she was getting better and didn’t need to go to hospital. I told her only people with heart attacks need ambulances and I didn’t think it was a hospital job.
‘I thought it was a stomach bug and paracetamol and ibuprofen would be what the doctor would give her.’
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Medics later discovered Robyn had developed peritonitis and then suffered a perforated duodenal ulcer.
COURT RULING
Goldie was jailed for three years and six months in 2020 after admitting wilful ill treatment and neglect between July 2017 and July 2018.
She admitted failing to provide Robyn with adequate food, clothing or heating, hitting her and permitting her to smoke cannabis and drink alcohol.
