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A Rutherglen woman who told a one-year-old boy “I hate you” when he cried in her company has been given three months to behave herself.

Ainsley Ashcroft, 25, also told the tot “you’re getting adopted out” in front of others at a property in the town.

A disgusted friend who was at the house at the time with Ashcroft and pals, reported her behaviour to the police.

In August 2015 the police were called out to a house to a noise complaint and found a dumbbell, knife block and a pot strewn in the garden under the window.

Ashcroft told officers she had been “mad with it” and “went mental” and was taken to hospital.

Ashcroft previously pled guilty to behaving in an aggressive manner towards the child on September 30, 2014.

She also admitted culpably and recklessly throwing items out the house at Toryglen Road, Rutherglen, on August 23, last year.

She appeared in the dock at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week for sentencing.

But sheriff Paul Crozier continued the case for three months for good behaviour and for more information on her health from her doctor.

She is currently on a community payback order for an unrelated assault charge.

The sheriff said: “You are very close to being sent to jail. You better keep doing well on that community payback order because if you don’t, you’re going to jail.

“Rest assured, you will be punished for these offences in some way.”

The case was continued until February.