The "bright" 14-year-old also took drugs and staged a sit-in when asked to go to bed, magistrates heard. The 51-year-old mother, who cannot be named, and her estranged husband hauled her kicking and screaming to her room. Faced with a video of the event, the woman, from Knutsford, Cheshire tearfully admitted common assault. She was given a conditional discharge and released by sympathetic magistrate Marcia Moss who told her: "Good luck with your daughter."

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