A PENZANCE mother jailed after her children were found living in "Dickensian squalor" has seen her sentence halved.The woman, then 46, who cannot be identified, admitted two counts of cruelty to a child at Truro Crown Court in May this year and was given a two-year jail term after social workers found her two sons living in appalling conditions.However, top judges at London's Criminal Appeal Court have ruled that the mother was "inadequate rather than deliberately cruel".They...
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