Grandma's House

Here's a woman who will never be voted Mother of the Year:

A Westmont woman will spend 30 days in the DuPage County Jail beginning next month after she admitted leaving her three young children home alone for nine hours while she attended a taping of "The Jerry Springer Show" in Chicago.

Shannon Cook, 24, of the 300 block of South Cass Avenue, pleaded guilty earlier this week to three misdemeanor counts of endangering the life of a child because of no adult supervision, authorities said.

She was ordered to surrender to begin serving her jail sentence Feb. 10.

DuPage County Judge Daniel Guerin also placed Cook on one year of probation and ordered her to pay $525 in fees and fines.

DuPage court records show Cook has a son, 3 ½ years, a 2-year-old daughter and a daughter who is less than a year old.

It's bad enough she was that stupid, but the judge isn't much better. Those kids could have been killed, and the best he could do is 30 days in county jail?