GREENOCK WOMAN DENIES ILL-TREATING AND NEGLECTING CHILDREN
A GREENOCK woman has denied wilfully ill-treating and neglecting a baby and two children under the age of 12.Bernadette Dykes is alleged to have exposed the children to domestic assault and unsanitary living conditions, and neglected to provide them with enough food.
She is also accused of exposing the children in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury to health.
Two of the children were under 12, and a third was a baby under one year old at the time of the alleged incident.
Additionally, Dykes, 35, faces charges of assaulting a man, and punching and scratching him to his injury.
It is asserted that the offence was intensified by the abuse of a partner or ex-partner.
She is also accused of obstructing police officers by tensing and pulling her arms away in an attempt to prevent being handcuffed.
All these incidents supposedly took place at an address in Greenock on August 31.
Dykes pleaded not guilty to all charges through her defence solicitor, Aidan Gallagher.
She has been granted bail with standard conditions and one additional condition directing her not to contact a named man.
Her trial at Greenock Sheriff Court is scheduled for October 29, with an intermediate diet due on October 7.
