Another of her children is thought to be in care. And Mullen was not at the inquest into Chelsey – because she was in hospital after a third birth. Yesterday she admitted she had not even realised that she was pregnant.
Mr Hooper fumed: “This little girl’s life was gravely prejudiced by the behaviour of her mother. She keeps producing children who are addicted to heroin.” Mr Hooper said there was nothing that social services could have done to prevent Mullen having children.
A neighbour said: “It’s shocking – she’s just had another baby girl and we understand that one is also not well. She walks around in the streets in her pyjamas. This woman is a disgrace.” But Mullen, who gave birth two weeks ago, shrugged off the coroner’s remarks yesterday when her 51-year-old boyfriend David Essex drove her from hospital in a red Robin Reliant.
She was clutching a bag of medication as she arrived with part-time delivery driver Mr Essex – the father of her first two children – at their home on the outskirts of Rotherham. Mullen claimed the effects of heroin stopped her realising she was pregnant with her babies. She said: “I’m off drugs now. I’ve been on a course of methadone and am hoping to stay off them.
“As for what the coroner has said, I didn’t know I was pregnant. I didn’t have any periods when I was on drugs. I’m not saying anything else. I don’t want to talk about it.”
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