Overview

• Abbi Taylor pleaded guilty to three counts of dumping soiled nappies and smearing excrement at South Shields nurseries over a six-year campaign.
• Recorder Richard Herrmann suspended a two-year prison term for two years, citing Taylor’s assaults in custody and her failure to fully explain her motivations.
• As part of her sentence, Taylor must complete 100 hours of unpaid work, 40 days of rehabilitation activity and wear a GPS monitoring tag.
• Court reports described Taylor’s self-styled “adult baby” identity and age-regression coping mechanism for childhood trauma, with no evidence of sexual interest in children.
• Nurseries in South Tyneside invested in security upgrades and endured staff distress as unpredictable waste dumping continued despite a previous criminal behaviour order.