THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 20-year-old woman of Mtendere township to 12 months simple imprisonment for having deserted her three children.Magistrate Mbuywana Sinvula who has, however, suspended the sentence for 15 months, has warned Maureen Makai that she would not hesitate to send her to prison if she committed a similar offence within those 15 months.