A CALLOUS couple who left a badly injured baby in pain while one took another child to see Disney on Ice have been spared jail.
Mark Watson, 44, and Lorraine Donnan, 40, decided to take the 11-week-old tot, who they had in their care, to the hospital the day after the performance.
Donnan had already agreed to take a three-year-old girl, and had “spent a lot of money on tickets.”
The baby wasn't seen by medics until six days after he suffered a fractured thigh bone when he fell from a couch.
Watson and Donnan, from Thornliebank, Glasgow, pleaded guilty at the city's sheriff court to wilfully neglecting the baby and failing to get medical attention after noticing the baby was in discomfort and pain.
On Wednesday, sheriff Paul Crozier handed them a community payback order as a “direct alternative to custody”.
He told them: “This was a serious matter and I will bring it to an end today with the imposition of a community payback order because the offence is serious enough to warrant that.”
The sheriff ordered that, for the year-long order, they will be supervised and must carry out 150 hours of unpaid work each within that time.
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