Mum from hell: Woman who forced her daughter to drink saltwater and eat SOAP gets jailed
A 60-year-old woman has been accused of forcing her daughter to drink salt water and eat a bar of soap as part of a torture routine during a 7-year abuse period.
The parent was said to have subjected her child who was at that time 5-years-old to regular physical and sexual abuse which made the little girl run away from home.
The court also heard how the girl was also tortured with a hot light bulb, had her head banged against a wall so hard she vomited and was hit with a cast iron frying pan.
Mirror News reports:
In a shocking case at Liverpool Crown Court, it was heard how the mother struck her daughter with a bath brush in the early hours of the morning to enforce cleaning of the house.
The girl was tortured with a hot light bulb, had her head banged against a wall so hard she vomited and was hit with a cast iron frying pan.
The youngster did tell police about the treatment meted out to her, no formal action
taken until last year when she revisited the cops, aged nearly 40.
In one incident, the mother bashed a hammer on her fingers, held her head under bathwater so she feared drowning and smothered her with a pillow to punish her.
She was also subjected to degrading sexual abuse.
The victim broke down sobbing uncontrollably as a judge told her mother she had “robbed her of her childhood” by her persistent abuse which made her feel worthless.
The 60-year-old, from Everton, Merseyside, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to three sexual assault offences and 12 offences of child cruelty between May 1978 and May 1985.
She was jailed for six years and eight months.
Paul Lewis, defending, said that the defendant, who has no previous convictions, had had psychological and psychiatric difficulties at the time and had a single and isolated parent.
Judge Warnock added: “She{the daughter} clearly felt worthless, unwanted and not believed. If it is any comfort she is believed now.”
