The mother left to Australia to meet her boyfriend, a man that he had met online. She told her fourteen-year-old son that she was going to the supermarket and, after four hours, the boy called his grandparents to alert of his mother's sudden disappearance. The police and the local services were alerted and later they found out about the woman's location. She didn't want to come back so the authorities arrested her six weeks later when she returned. Her lawyer said that it was a unique circumstance and that the children weren't affected. Judge Creed has given her a suspended jail sentence because, besides what she's done, she's been a good mother, being a single parent. The children are living now with their grandparents.
I think that this is a crazy story. The mother should have thought about her kids first, instead of running away to meet her boyfriend. As a mother, she has responsabilities and she shouldn't have left them all alone at home without telling them were she was really going. She could've got someone to look after them while she was away, but the thing is that, by not telling anyone, she worried her grandparents and her children. I understand that being a single mother must be really stressing, specially having six kids, but what she did was wrong. If the woman's wish was to meet her boyfriend and spend six weeks with him in Australia, she just had to buy a ticket and take her children to her grandparents or a friends' house. It's common sense.
VOCABULARY
"mother-of-six": expression used to say that the mother has six children.
sentence: judgement or punishment determined by a judge for someone who has commited a crime.
court: place where legal justice is administered or group of people, such as judges, lawyers, and a jury, authorized to hear and decide legal cases.
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