EVIL COUPLE JAILED FOR CHILD ABUSE, INCLUDING FORCING VICTIMS INTO SCALDING HOT SHOWERS!
Warning: This article contains details that may be upsetting to some readers.A couple was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of subjecting two boys to severe physical, psychological, and emotional abuse.
Lisa Pratt, aged 36, and 30-year-old Andrew Clent were both convicted on two counts of child cruelty relating to incidents in Witney from January 2010 to April 2015.
The court was told that the children were physically assaulted, force-fed, and forced to endure scalding hot showers as a means of abuse.
At Oxford Crown Court, a jury also convicted Pratt of causing actual bodily harm to another teenager.
She was identified as primarily responsible for the abuse and received a seven-year prison sentence, while Clent was sentenced to four years.
Prosecutor Jane Brady highlighted that the victims, whose identities are protected by law, endured frequent acts of cruelty, sometimes occurring daily.
One of the boys was reportedly throttled with a towel until blacking out, and on another occasion, had his head held underwater.
The children were sometimes denied access to the toilet, leading them to soil themselves, and they were kept away from friends.
When social workers visited, the couple warned that any signs of distress would result in punishment.
The abuse only came to light when neighbors witnessed a third teenager being restrained and violently kicked and stamped on in April 2015.
Judge Zoe Smith remarked that Clent appeared to be different when his partner was absent and suggested he might have been afraid of her, but he failed to shield the children from harm.
In her sentencing remarks, the judge described the mistreatment of the boys as "abominable" and "sadistic."
