58-year old mum pleads guilty to breach of son’s protection order on Mother’s Day

When a mum found herself spending Mother’s Day alone she called and text her son despite him having a protection order against her.

A woman who was spending Mother’s Day alone found herself in legal strife after she kept calling her son despite a protection order.

An Ipswich court this week heard the 52-year-old woman said she felt lonely without family contact on Mother’s Day and tried calling him several times that Sunday.

Ipswich Magistrates Court this week heard her calls went unanswered and her adult son reported the contacts to police.

The woman pleaded guilty to contravening a protection order between May 8 and May 11 this year.

Prosecutor Sergeant Paul Caldwell said the adult son later called police and showed the officer a log of phone calls from his mother.

Sgt Caldwell said there were seven calls made on Mother’s Day, plus four other calls.

The court heard the woman initially left a message asking how her son’s day was, but things became more heated later.

After not hearing back from him, the court heard she became upset and sent text messages, including one stating “I can tell you hate my f***ing guts ATM”.

Defence lawyer Gregory Ploetz said the woman was upset as it was Mother’s Day and she was at home by herself.

Mr Ploetz said the contact was made out of anxiety and frustration at not having any contact with her son.

“It was Mother’s Day. She was struggling with the situation and she took steps to try and contact him,” he said.

“Her son is 25. It is a temporary protection order.”

Magistrate Jacqueline Payne said she had no previous history and the matter was an unfortunate blemish on her good character.

“It might be Mother’s Day or Christmas but that does not matter as he has an order to protect him,” Ms Payne said.

“It is not about you.”

Ms Payne found the matter to be out of character and placed the woman on a $1000 good behaviour bond. No conviction was recorded.