A mother has been spared jail despite causing 'horrific' injuries to her baby son's feet by slashing them with a razor blade. Rachael Thompson, 40, sliced her four-month-old's heels and then told doctors the child kicked the blade when into fell into his bath.
Jurors at Plymouth Crown Court took just two and half hours to convict her of assault after hearing that her son's wounds could only have been caused deliberately.
But Recorder Vasanti Selvaratnum spared Thompson jail because he believed her cruel attack was a 'cry for help'.
He also ruled that the assaulted baby should stay with her despite her conviction.
Sentencing her to 50 weeks, suspended for a year, he told the mother: 'You clearly love your son. The injury you caused him was a cry for help and out of character.
'There is no suggestion in any evidence I have seen that the injury the jury found you caused to your son was anything other than an isolated incident and he remained in your care for two years or more.'
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