Angry ex made 150 calls to nursery where pregnant love rival worked - and said she would 'kick the baby out of her'

Roxanne Haley, 27, of Sunderland’s St John’s Vale, pleaded guilty to harassment, making phone calls and failing to surrender to bail when she appeared before South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court.

Eve McDonnell, prosecuting, said in of one of the calls “she said she was going to kick the baby out of her.”

She said the incidents dated back to June this year when the victim was 16 weeks pregnant with the baby of the defendant’s ex-partner.

Ms McDonnell, said: “The defendant didn’t take too kindly to this news and began sending (the woman) messages.”

She said when the victim didn’t respond to any of the messages and blocked the defendant on social media, Haley decided to start contacting the nursery where the injured party worked and threatened to turn up there.

During the course of the day there were around 150 calls made to the nursery, some of them were silent and in others she asked to be put through to the victim, and there was also the incident of threatening to ‘kick the baby out of her’.

Ms McDonnell said: “The nursery had to unplug the telephone due to the disruption.”

She read from the victim’s statement, saying: “I am absolutely sick, I am done with it.

“Roxanne has no reason to speak to me. I have no reason to talk to her. I have never met her and I hope I never do.”

Jackson Taylor, defending, said his client believes the issues were going both ways.

He said: “Ultimately, she does accept her wrong-doing.

“She pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.”

Haley was given an 18-month community order and told to pay £100 compensation, £85 costs and an £85 surcharge. She was also made subject of a five-year restraining order preventing her from contacting the victim.