ABC News Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:03 CDT LOCAL NEWS : Northern Territory Pregnant woman facing mandatory sentence after stealing food A pregnant woman from Central Australia may be jailed under the Northern Territory's mandatory sentencing laws for allegedly stealing food and a pram from her ex-husband's house. Theresa O'Sullivan, the lawyer representing the 25-year-old woman, says the case has been set down for hearing in June, when the woman will be nine-months pregnant. She says the woman is alleged to have stolen the food for her five children. "If she is found guilty of these offences because they are property offences that means she will have to serve a mandatory minimum period of 14 days in prison," she said. "The father hadn't left her with enough money for the five children so she was waiting for him to return her account. "It's that at some point some of the kids went into the house and let her in and they started eating some food and then she, they gave her some food to take with them and also gave her the pram for the youngest child who is only 19 months who was falling asleep." © 2000 Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- ********************************* Make the Hunger Site your homepage! http://www.thehungersite.com/index.html ********************************* ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
