On-the-run aristocrat Constance Marten tearfully told a court today how she would have preferred her child had gone into care if she could have "foreseen the circumstances" of the infant’s death. Under cross-examination, Marten was asked whether she was in a fit state to care for a child "with the clothes on your back and with limited resources and money." She replied: "We weren’t planning to stay like that… our plan went up in flames.
" She was also asked whether she wouldn’t want social services to find her child “whatever the circumstances." She started crying on the stand and said: "I would prefer she had her whole life ahead of her but of course if I had foreseen the circumstances, of falling asleep on her, then I would’ve preferred her going into care." Marten earlier told jurors that she and her partner planned to pay someone to smuggle their baby daughter abroad. Marten, 36, and her partner Mark Gordon, 49, are on trial after baby Victoria died while they were camping on the South Downs in wintry conditions last year
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Aristocrat Court Child Care Circumstances Death Trial Camping Wintry Conditions
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