Mum who kept kids in house smeared with faeces appears on TV
MOTHER CONVICTED OF CHILD CRUELTY ON JEREMY KYLE
A HULL mum who kept her children in a house with human excrement smeared on walls and windows appeared on Jeremy Kyle.
Claire Greenley, who was handed an eight-month suspended jail sentence in July for child cruelty offences, was on the ITV daytime talk show yesterday morning.
Ms Greenley was arguing whether or not her sister Natalie should continue an on-off relationship with her partner, Stephen, in an explosive episode of the show.
The family, all of Hull, appeared alongside Natalie’s mum as they received DNA test results to determine whether the child the pair had was in fact Stephen’s.
Opening the segment, Jeremy Kyle said: “Claire is here to tell her sister’s ex Stephen that he’s nothing more than a manipulative control freak.
“Claire says that when her sister became pregnant, she told Stephen there was only a 50 per cent chance he was the father as she’d had a one-night stand.
“Claire says he stood by the kid, but hopes today the DNA proves he’s not the dad so all of them can be rid of him for good.”
Claire, who opened the segment alongside Kyle, described Stephen as a “bum” who sleeps all day as she explained her issues with her sister’s on-off partner.
Speaking to the host on stage, she said: “He’s on the Xbox all night and sleeps all day. She has to run around after him and get him up for appointments.
“If he stepped up he would be but if he wasn’t a bum and sat around doing nothing.”
However, her sister Natalie says Claire is against anyone she is with. “You don’t like no one who I’m getting with at all,” she said.
It turns out Stephen is not the father to Claire Greenley’s niece, DNA tests revealed. Speaking to Kyle on the programme, he said he was unsure if he could stay with her because of her family’s attitude towards him.
Greenley’s appearance on TV comes less than three months after she made headlines of her own.
Greenley, who was aged 35 at the time of her Hull Crown Court appearance in July, had her children taken into care after she subjected them to “emotional and psychological harm” while with her.
Her home was described as having “faeces on the sink” while the bathroom had a two-and-a-half foot pile of “soiled clothing”, according to prosecutor Megan Rhys.
An upstairs window and the letter box had also been smeared with excrement in the home the judge called “squalid and unkempt from top to bottom”.
Sentencing Greenley, Judge David Tremberg said the house was “comprehensively unfit for human habitation”, and was “squalid and unkempt from top to bottom, with the smell and presence of faeces about the place”. He told Greenley: “From the photographs, this was more like a pigsty than a home”.
When Greenley was interviewed by police, she accepted the house was uninhabitable. Greenley, who had no previous convictions, later admitted child cruelty offences.
Following her trial, Greenley was ordered to have 25 days’ rehabilitation, along with her two-year suspended sentence.