Drug addict mum dodges jail after 10-week-old baby died with cocaine in system
Drug addict mum dodges jail after 10-week-old baby died with cocaine in system
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A DRUGGIE mum whose ten-week-old baby died after she exposed her to cocaine has dodged a jail term. Shereen Mains, 36, subjected daughter Darcy to “unnecessary suffering or injury” by taking the Class A drug while the tot was present. A jury at Greenock Sheriff Court previously found that the mum had “exposed her baby to cocaine, whereby she ingested” the Class A narcotic in September 2019.
![[Woman in light coat outside Greenock Sheriff Court.]](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/shareen-mains-outside-greenock-sheriff-957866616.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The feckless scumbag, from Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire was also convicted of possessing cannabis and phenazepam, a powerful benzodiazepine. Sheriff Anthony McGeehan could have sent the mum to jail but gave her unpaid work, an electronic tag and supervision as a direct alternative to custody.
![[Black and white photo of baby Darcy Mains; RIP message.]](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/grabs-baby-darcy-mains-taken-957879096.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Darcy’s dad Terry McCulloch, 43, stormed out of the court after a bungle by staff meant he was given the wrong time for sentencing and missed the hearing. He’d previously labelled Mains ‘scum’ after revealing she had told him of Darcy’s death in a text that read ‘this wean’s deid.’.
![[Butterfly-shaped gravestone for baby Darcy Leigh Mains.]](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/grave-baby-darcy-mains-mum-957911165.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He said: "I think she should have got some sort of custodial sentence. "She never leaves the house so putting her on a tag is pointless and no punishment at all. "It was ridiculous that I missed it. The way the justice system has treated me has been disgraceful - it's like I didn't matter.".
The shocked dad raced to his child’s side and found a next door neighbour nurse giving the infant CPR as Mains looked on. But she could not be saved and cops later found traces of coke on the infant’s feeding bottles. Mains also took the narcotic around her.
