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Mum jailed after girl, 3, starved to death while she went out partying for week

A “cruel” mother has been jailed after she left her daughter home alone to starve to death while she went on a week-long partying spree.

Maria Plenkina, 21, from Russia, deserted three-year-old Kristina for a week in February last year.

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