Law - Pleading The Belly Poem by Paul Warren

In Adelaide, South Australia a young woman was caught selling hard drugs to the community for the second time. Her lawyer submitted after her guilty plea to the second charge that she needed to be out of gaol to raise her young daughter and was pregnant with another baby. This all whilst on a suspended sentence from the first drug selling conviction. Should she be let off on a suspended sentence again? The practice came from a Lady Pirate's plea for piracy in the Old Bailey about two hundred years ago where she was spared the gallows because she was pregnant.