Mother dumped two newborn babies because of shame of being single mum

A Single mother abandoned two newborn babies in the space of three years because she was too ashamed to tell relatives she was pregnant out of wedlock.

Bronagh Bond, 27, dumped her daughters Holly and Angel in the street and ignored repeated police appeals for their mother to come forward.

In April last year police realised both babies' DNA was a close match to a man already on their database.

After approaching his family they established he had four sisters and asked to take a DNA swab from each of the women.

Only then did Bond finally confess she was the mother of both babies.

Yesterday she walked free from court after admitting two counts of child cruelty.

Liverpool Crown Court heard how she was already a single mother when she discovered she was pregnant in March 2003.

But, with her relationship with the child's father breaking down, she couldn't cope with raising another child alone.

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She left the five-day-old baby girl, named Holly by nurses, near a block of flats close to her home in Walton, Liverpool, at 7am on Christmas Eve.

Two years later, in November 2005, Bond discovered she was pregnant again after a holiday romance in Turkey.

Bond dumped baby Angel, then aged four weeks, on a path in Stanley Park, close to Everton FC's Goodison Park stadium.

She was found by a passer-by on July 29, 2006.

Her head was resting on a plastic bag containing a bottle of milk, clothes and an emotional three page hand-written note from Bond.

It read: "I'm truly sorry. I will love you with all my heart forever and ever."

Charlotte Kenny, defending, said Bond "blanked out" her pregnancy with Holly and felt no emotional attachment when the child was born.

When Bond found out she was pregnant with Angel she dreaded telling her family, Miss Kenny added.

"She found the prospect of their reaction too much to bear," she said.

Holly has since been adopted and Angel is in foster care, the court heard.

Sentencing Bond to a two-year community order, Judge Henry Globe QC told her: "It is fortunate that neither child has been physically adversely affected. How they might be mentally, only time will tell."