A NEGLECTFUL mother who left her baby alone, wet and “filthy” in a hotel room with a bottle of milk propped up on a towel has been put on probation for a year. The woman (21) “abandoned” her four-month old son in dirty clothes while she left the building to smoke outside with a drunken man. Gardaí found the child alone in a buggy in a room that smelled strongly of cigarettes, with open alcohol bottles nearby. Placing her on a probation bond, Judge David McHugh said what the woman did was an “appalling breach of trust” for a mother. The accused pleaded guilty to wilfully neglecting, ill treating or abandoning her infant at the Clayton Hotel, Liffey Valley, under the Children Act.