TWO women performed a sex act on each other in front of horrified children on the school run, a court heard.
Rosalind Fitzgerald, 42, and Sarah Crawford, 39, had been drinking all night at a party when they got frisky in Gateshead.
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They have now pleaded guilty to outraging public decency following the December 11 act.
Newcastle Magistrates’ Court was told the pair were seen engaging in a sex act together near the doorway of a shop at 8.40am.
Prosecutor Paul Anderson said: “Of course at that time of the day there would have been children going to school.”
Both women appeared in court separately, with Fitzgerald handed a 12-month community order and fined £120.
The chair of the bench told Fitzgerald, who has previous convictions “We’ve heard you may not be a stranger to these proceedings but you are lightly convicted.
“Clearly there is a lot going on in your world (but) this is still an offence that needs to be considered.”
Alanna Wesencraft, defending, said Fitzgerald is “incredibly disappointed in herself”.
She added: “She has not repeated any of this behaviour.”
Crawford, of North Shields, North Tyneside, had her sentence adjourned until July.
The charge against her stated she was “involved in a sexual act with Rosalind Fitzgerald, within the sight and to the outrage of other persons then present”.
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