Sick mum left baby to starve to death while she went out partying for 2 weeks

19 year old Russian woman Alyona Ipatova (pictred left) who left her 

five-month-old baby to starve to death while she went out partying for

 two weeks has been sentenced to a minimum of 10 years' hard labour.

 Alyona, dubbed 'Monster mum' by Russian media admitted in court to

 leaving her baby alone in her apartment in Russia and went partying

 for two whole weeks with friends.

Prosecutors said when the teen got back, she found her infant daughter dead

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Alyona pictured above in another pic said in court during sentencing

"I really regret what I did. I did not want that to happen. 

I realise what I have done," she told the sentencing hearing.
Her lawyer claimed she had asked the child's father to help look after

 their daughter. 

"Yes, she left the child at times. Although she left her, sometimes 

she came back in the morning or the father was at home, so he could

 still look after the girl," he claimed.

Her lawyer wanted the court to change the charge from 'murder of a minor

 with cruelty' to 'causing death by negligence' but the judge rejected the plea

 and sentenced her to 10 years hard labour.