A WALTHAMSTOW woman has denied criminal neglect after a teenager she was looking after was scalded in a bath.

The 19-year-old man spent two weeks in a specialist burns unit following the incident at the Five Ways home in Kingsdown Park, Whitstable, Kent, on November 11 last year.

Ebenezer Adebisi, 27, of Forest Road, Walthamstow and colleague Sharon Johnson, 45, of Charnwood Street, Hackney, pleaded not guilty at Canterbury Magistrates' Court.

They were released on bail to appear before magistrates on May 14.