A Forty-nine-year-old moth­er of four has been charged with four counts of child aban­don­ment. She plead­ed guilty and was fined $1000 on each charge when she ap­peared at the Scar­bor­ough Court to­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, at 10 am on De­cem­ber 21st, fire of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a fire at Mil­ford Court. Up­on ar­rival, one of the rooms of the house was ablaze and sub­se­quent­ly de­stroyed. The of­fi­cer while con­duct­ing fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions, found four chil­dren ages rang­ing from nine to four­teen years at home un­su­per­vised.

W/Cpl. (Ag.) Hamil­ton of the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit, To­ba­go was de­tailed to in­ves­ti­gate, as a re­sult of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, the ac­cused was ar­rest­ed and charged on De­cem­ber 21st. The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was su­per­vised by W/Supt (Ag), Claire GuyAl­leyne, ASP Robert, and Sgt. Miller.