The incident occurred on Friday afternoon in Lubin. “The duty officer at the police headquarters was notified about a woman under the influence of alcohol who had come to the kindergarten to pick up her 6-year-old child,” reports asp. szt. Sylwia Serafin, press officer of the Komenda Powiatowa Policji w Lubinie. “The caregiver noticed that the boy’s mother was probably under the influence of alcohol and refused to hand the child over to her.
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The kindergarten teacher’s suspicions were confirmed. Police officers who arrived at the scene checked the woman’s sobriety. The test showed that the 30-year-old had nearly 2.5 per mille of alcohol in her system. The officers also established that, at the same time, another child of the irresponsible woman—a 9-year-old girl—was at home in the unlocked apartment without supervision.
It emerged that the 30-year-old woman was raising both children alone. By court decision, the siblings were placed in the care of the Lubin Powiatowe Centrum Opieki i Wychowania. The family court was also notified of the case.
The 30-year-old may now face a sentence of between three months and as many as five years in prison.