Constance Marten defends living with baby in tent as 'Jesus survived in a barn'

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'Jesus survived in a barn. I would do anything to protect my child to prevent her being taken by the system that's abhorrent, yeah.'

Constance Marten went on the run with her partner Mark Gordon and newborn baby Victoria A mum on trial over her baby daughter’s death has defended her decision to live with the newborn in a tent in the middle of winter, saying: ‘Jesus survived in a barn.’ Constance Marten, 36, and her partner Mark Gordon, 49, are on trial after their baby Victoria died while they were camping in the South Downs last winter.

But she said: ‘People around the world live in conditions like that… as long as your child is well taken care of and loved.’ Asked what they planned to do about food, she said: ‘It was only a pitstop. We were not thinking about being there for months. It was more in the immediacy rather than long-term planning.’ Marten repeatedly dismissed as ‘ridiculous’ the prosecution suggestion that she had carried her daughter in a Lidl ‘bag for life’ when she was alive.

 

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