'Binge-drinking' mum walks away from pram outside Asda leading to discovery of baby's tragic abuse

24.07.2022 - 15:51 / dailyrecord.co.uk

A baby's severe mistreatment has been uncovered after their 'binge drinking' mother walked away from a pram outside a supermarket, leading to the discovery of a catalogue of tragic abuse.

Julija Priadina caught the attention of security staff after she was clocked walking around Asda in Great Barr, a town north-west of Birmingham, swigging from a bottle of wine.

Security concluded that she was intoxicated but were shocked to see she had a young baby in her care. As the woman left the store, the 32-year-old took another gulp of alcohol before walking out into the road, forcing the traffic to stop for her and the buggy.

The Russian national then sat down on some steps before disappearing altogether, leaving the infant unattended for more than a minute and causing a nearby guard to rush to the tot's aid, reports BirminghamLive.

Mercy crews sped to the scene and Priadina, who at this point had come back and was preventing officials from assessing the child, was arrested.

Later in hospital a horrific catalogue of 32 injuries were discovered all over the three-month-old's body including bruises, cuts and bleeding within the brain while the youngster's left eye was unable to fully open.

It would later emerge Priadina had violently beaten her baby as she descended into a 'catastrophic breakdown into alcohol abuse'.

The former Jaguar Land Rover worker, of Skipton Road, Ladywood, went on to admit child cruelty and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

She was sentenced to three years, nine months in January but it is only now the full story can be told, after the baby's father Shoja-ul-din Omrany was cleared of a single count of child cruelty.

The 54-year-old had denied wilfully neglecting the child by failing to seek