Drug addict mum let 10-week-old baby girl ingest cocaine before her tragic death
A DRUGGIE mum allowed her baby to ingest cocaine throughout her tragic ten-week life of agony.
Shareen Mains, 36, subjected daughter Darcy Mains to “unnecessary suffering or injury” by taking the Class A drug while the tot was present.
A jury at Greenock Sheriff Court unanimously found that the mum had “exposed her baby to cocaine, whereby she ingested” the Class A narcotic.
The feckless scumbag, from Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire was also convicted possessing cannabis and phenazepam, a powerful benzodiazepine.
The five day trial heard harrowing evidence of how little Darcy was discovered lifeless in September 2019 at her home – and cops later found traces of cocaine on four feeding bottles.
Depute fiscal Kirsten Brierley’s gave a recap of the case and the horror events of September 8, 2019.
She said: “We were told from the first witness, a paramedic, that the mum had said that she had got up around 4am to feed the baby and went back to sleep.
“But she awoke to find the baby was not breathing and unresponsive.
“A next door neighbour, who was a nurse, heard shouts of help at around 10.20am.
“She came in to help but in her experience the baby had the appearance that she was either already dead or close to the end of life.
“The baby was lifeless but the witness told the court she gave CPR and called an ambulance.”
Darcy was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at Inverclyde Royal Hospital.
A forensic examination of the flat found five baby bottles which were taken for further checks.
Four of the bottles, two from the kitchen worktop and two from the bedroom, were found to test positive for cocaine.
Burnt foil and polythene wraps were found in a plastic bag hanging on a door handle and a homemade “bong” using a plastic bottle was also discovered.
Experts found Darcy had 0.003 milligrams of cocaine in her system, which had a seven day upper limit.
Ms Brierley added: “This is consistent to being exposed to cocaine but there is no way of telling what were the peak levels.”
Defence advocate Alistair Sloan described the case as “tragic and difficult” but argued the Crown had not proved that the cocaine was in the possession and control of Mains.
On Facebook, Mains describes herself as a “full time mommy”.
She added that she’s “here for a good yin, no a sad yin” and that “family/friends mean everything”.
She was bailed by Sheriff Anthony McGeehan and will be sentenced next month.