A pregnant British mother of six who admitted to shamelessly abandoning her children to take a six week Australian vacation with a man she met online has been given a suspended jail sentence.
The unidentified single mom told her oldest 16-year-old son she was merely stepping out to do some shopping before hopping on an international flight out of Heathrow Airport on Jan. 1, the BBC reported.
The teen, left to care for her five other children — the youngest of which was age 3 — eventually called his grandparents who contacted police when she didn't come home several hours later.
The stubborn mother, reached while Down Under by police and her parents, reportedly refused to come back home until her vacation, paid for by her online beau, was finished.
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