Two-year-old Joshua Barnett was playing in their family garden in Beverley, East Yorkshire, on 17 March last year when he fell into a pond.

Claire Barnett, 31, was inside her house looking at her phone at the time of Joshua’s death.

When she realised what had happened she attempted to save him, but it was too late.

She was criticised by a judge at Hull Crown Court for her ‘bad parenting’, and was told she would pose ‘very serious risks’ to any child she had responsibility for.

The mum-of-four, who now lives in Nottingham, was interviewed by police and gave officers differing stories about what had happened.

She had also let Joshua and another young child play outside unsupervised in the road in Hull, the court heard. Her neighbours called social services after they were almost hit by a car.

Claire pleaded guilty to four counts of child cruelty.

Your son died due to your neglectful conduct,’ Judge Jeremy Richardson told her. ‘You will have to live with that for the remainder of your life. For a parent to behave as you did, repeatedly, amounts to consistently bad parenting.

‘I trust that you will never be allowed to have further unsupervised contact to any child. If you should have any further children, they will almost certainly be removed from you.

‘You pose very serious risks to any child for whom you might have responsibility.’


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