On February 15, Corbett-Pitman's daughter turned up to her second day at school with head lice and despite it being brought to her mother's attention, she returned to school the next day in the same condition.
After about a week of attending school, the victim started walking home by herself when her mother never arrived to pick her up.
The girl's appearance was described as unkempt, her clothes were often dirty and as well as being heavily infested with head lice, she smelt badly, having not bathed.
She would often tell her teacher she had not had breakfast and did not have any lunch.
This situation continued for months and became worse, with the girl constantly scratching bites all over her body.
On June 13, she arrived at school with diarrhoea and smelled badly after soiling herself.
When the school was unable to contact Corbett-Pitman, her daughter was given a shower during which it was found she had a large open sore-looking boil on her upper inner thigh, bites over body, as well as small scars from scratching the bites. She was still heavily infested with head lice.
A public health nurse unsuccessfully tried to contact the girl's mother over the next two days.
On June 20, the child again arrived at school with open sores and scratching. The next day she came to school hungry and told her teacher she had not had dinner the night before.
Her right knee had pustules on it, there were sores in her groin area and she had scabies.
Corbett-Pitman was told by the health nurse that her daughter needed to see a doctor and get antibiotics. She informed the nurse that she believed she, her partner and other child also had the highly contagious condition.
Despite this, on June 22 the 5-year-old turned up to school in bare feet, hungry, crying with weeping sores and, when she was thoroughly examined by the nurse, it was found she had multiple pustule lesions on her legs, arms, abdomen and buttocks, head lice and an ulcer in her mouth.
Child, Youth and Family was informed and the girl and her mother were taken to Tauranga Hospital. The child was then placed in her grandmother's care.
She is now attending another school.
Corbett-Pitman told police that she had noticed her daughter's health had deteriorated and believed it was due to over-crowding at her home.
Judge Harding told Corbett-Pitman that, while this offending may have occurred at a time when her home was grossly over-crowded, she had let the situation go on for "far too long".
He said it was clear from the pre-sentence report that she had not fully grasped the serious nature of her offending.
"Your standard of care to your daughter fell well below the standard expected by anyone.
"If you can't do better than that, then no doubt Child, Youth and Family will remove the child from your care, which overall would probably be a bad thing because a child needs its mother. But if you can't look after her appropriately, then someone else will."
Judge Harding agreed a rehabilitative sentence was the appropriate outcome.