The mother of Alfie Lamb who was crushed to death by a car seat has been released from prison after just five months.
Alfie, three, was crushed by the electric seat last February as he travelled in the car of his mum Adrian Hoare's ex-boyfriend Stephen Waterson.
Hoare, 24, had put the three-year-old in the footwell of Waterson's Audi A4 convertible on the way home to Croydon from a shopping trip.
Waterson got frustrated with Alfie during the journey and reversed into him twice with his electric seat.
Alfie suffered from crush asphyxia and died of a heart attack just a few days after the incident on February 1, 2018.
Hoare was cleared of manslaughter in February this year, but a jury found her guilty of child cruelty and assault.
She was jailed for two years and nine months in May but was released early from HMP Bronzefield on October 11.
In November, Waterson was sentenced to five years and six months for the manslaughter and further two years and 18 months for intimidation and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Now, Hoare has told MailOnline how she blames her ex-boyfriend completely for the death of her son and insists she had no involvement in Alfie's death.
She said: "To me, he's the one that moved the chair. In my head, I blame him more for what's happened.
"I was trying to get him to move the chair. I couldn't have moved the chair myself.
"He should've been in a seat, but where Stephen had kicked off and we knew we weren't going to get him to calm down, we got in the car just to stop him having a go at us.
"I blame it entirely on Stephen. I wouldn't say it's me that caused it to happen."
Hoare insists that she looked after Alfie properly despite her own mother saying her daughter paid more attention to her phone than Alfie, and that he would often beg for food.
She said Alfie was not "mistreated" and that she "did enough for him as a mum."
A serious case review into social workers is looking into why Alfie was allowed to live with Waterson, who has three previous battery convictions.
