Mum who intimidated, assaulted ex-partner wins right to raise baby in jail after court appeal
She was jailed after joining her boyfriend in beating and intimidating her ex-partner, but after a legal fight, a woman has overturned a decision to remove her baby from her care in jail.
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A jailed mum who joined her gang-connected lover to intimidate and assault her former partner will be allowed to raise her baby behind bars.
Skye La Rosa was jailed last year for four years and nine months on fraud, aggravated burglary, assault and theft charges.
She will be eligible for parole after three years.
Corrections removed the child from her care at a prison baby unit, but La Rosa fought the order to get her child back.
The Supreme Court agreed with La Rosa, who has another two kids in their dad’s care, after determining Corrections did not properly apply the law, which prohibited it removing the child from her.
She and her violent, drug-addicted boyfriend, Ahman Lodin, who has ties to outlaw bikie gangs and the Apex gang, had tried to extort cash from La Rosa’s ex-boyfriend, Christopher Beggs.
During an 11-day ordeal in 2016, the lovers threatened and intimidated Beggs, and demanded he hand over $4000.
Beggs was punched in the face and Lodin set his dog upon him after he was unable to get the cash.
He even barricaded himself in his roof at home when Lodin and La Rosa arrived to make more money demands.
The drug-affected pair rifled through his Mornington home stealing a phone, wallet and power tools as he hid.
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Police arrested them at a Cheltenham address, which they had leased fraudulently, and uncovered a cache of property suspected of being proceeds of crime, including a motorbike, iPads, computers, tools, identity documents and a PlayStation.
A State Government paper shows 69 per cent of women entering jails in 2017 had children, and 21 per cent were their primary carers.