A mother had her eight-year-old son taken into care after she smacked him with a hairbrush for refusing to get ready for school.
The 42-year-old was forced to give him up to social services after what she described as a ‘moment of madness’.
She was holding a hairbrush at the time and when her son refused to dress after a bath, she struck him with it twice on the shoulder to hurry him up.
