CRUEL SCOTS COUPLE BATTERED AND STARVED THEIR THREE DAUGHTERS IN 21-YEAR REIGN OF TERROR
A couple have been jailed for relentlessly assaulting and neglecting their daughters in a 21-year-long “reign of terror”.
Sharon and Charles Hughes beat and starved the kids, who are now adults, and prevented two of them from washing during a shocking campaign of abuse.
One of the children was repeatedly spun around a room by her hair.
Charles, 53, would also repeatedly hit one of them with a belt.
He also strangled his youngest daughter, and her mum dragged her along the ground by the hair.
Sharon, 48, would regularly dig her long nails into their skin, with the kids running away and hiding to avoid the abuse, which they grew up believing was normal.
They were jailed over their crimes on Friday and banned from having any contact with their children for the next 10 years.
Most of the abuse happened between 2000 and 2015, with specific incidents including blood strikes, dragging by hair, strangulation, and neglect.
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Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
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A couple have been jailed for relentlessly assaulting and neglecting their daughters in a 21-year-long "reign of terror". Sharon and Charles Hughes beat and starved the kids, who are now adults, and prevented two of them from washing dur...
Prison sentence
A couple have been jailed for relentlessly assaulting and neglecting their daughters in a 21-year-long "reign of terror"
Prison sentence
10 years
They were jailed over their crimes on Friday and banned from having any contact with their children for the next 10 years
Disqualification or ban
10 years
They were jailed over their crimes on Friday and banned from having any contact with their children for the next 10 years
