Abusive Mother Receives Only 18-MO Sentence
On May - 8 - 2012
A mother who abused her two children and kept them locked in bedrooms that were so cold her son caught frostbite was jailed for 18 months yesterday. Over a five-year period they were beaten, starved, forced to do manual labour instead of going to school, given cold baths and shut up in the dark. Both children had to sleep in their underwear without bedding or a mattress in an unheated room, Hull Crown Court was told during Linda Clappison’s cruelty trial. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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