A British mother who hid her sick baby in a drawer under her bed for the first three years of her life has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for what authorities described as “extreme neglect.

A mother who kept her baby daughter in a drawer under her bed for almost three years has been jailed for seven and a half years in Britain.

A woman who kept her baby daughter in a drawer under her bed until the child was almost three years old, has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.