Spanish Supreme Court recognises how difficult it is to be a mother

Spanish Supreme Court recognises how difficult it is to be a mother
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By h.b. - Mar 15, 2010 - 2:03 PM
The upper court has overturned a nine year prison sentence handed down on a woman who took drugs to her son in prison

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The Supreme Court in Spain has considered the difficulty which being a mother represents is reason enough to keep a Barcelona woman out of prison.

Barcelona Provincial Court sentenced the woman to nine years in prison in February 2009 after she admitted that she had taken two grams of hashish and nine of cocaine to her son in prison ‘because he had been having a hard time for days’.

The Supreme Court has now reduced the sentence to 18 months, meaning that, as the woman has no criminal record, the prison time is suspended, basing their decision on ‘how difficult it is to be a mother’, and denying something from a son, in this case drugs knowing that your son is an addict. The upper court considered enforcing prison time on the mother would ‘damage the principle of proportionality’.

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