Childminder who left more than 20 children alone jailed for child neglect

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Amanda Mathewson admitted a number of offences that took place at her home in Dunfermline, Fife, and other addresses in 2023 and 2024

Amanda Mathewson admitted a number of offences that took place at her home in Dunfermline, Fife, and other addresses in 2023 and 2024

A childminder who left kids unsupervised in a garden and had others strapped into prams 'obviously distressed' has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Amanda Mathewson, 55, admitted wilfully neglecting and abandoning children in her care after parents found children alone at her home in Dunfermline in Fife which was left unlocked while she went on a schoolrun.

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