‘You call yourself a mother?’: What judge told Pontiac mom during sentencing in child abuse case

An Oakland County mother was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading no contest to leaving her children living in “deplorable conditions.” Before the judge sentenced her, she called the mother a “selfish liar” and said, “There is no sympathy.”

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