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A 33-year-old woman, described by her own daughter as ‘the worst mother ever’, has been sentenced to just over 11 years in jail for charges stemming from years of abuse against her children.
The woman is from the Conception Bay North area but her identity can’t be revealed to protect the victims. She was convicted in May in Harbour Grace provincial court.
Court heard she repeatedly kicked, slapped and punched her children, locked some in their rooms until they soiled themselves and forced some to watch her and her husband engage in sex acts. She also encouraged some children to perform sex acts on each other, court heard.
On other occasions, while bathing some children in a tub, she would hold their heads under the water.
“At least one of the daughters thought she was going to die,” provincial court Judge James Walsh wrote in a decision released Tuesday.
The woman also held some of the children upside down over a stairwell railing, Walsh said.
“While physical injuries were not incurred, the children suffered significant emotional and psychological impact from this event,” he wrote.
“The facts of this case are appalling. They show an almost systematic pattern of torture of these young children. … The acts committed by the accused fit into the category of unimaginable.”
In a victim impact statement, the woman’s 15-year-old daughter wrote: “I feel you are the worst mother ever … I am not going to be like you and if I have kids I will not hurt them.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
In the case of the Newfoundland woman convicted of child abuse – was the father mentally incapacitated? Why is he not also headed to jail?
I don’t know but he’s probably being tried seperately. He may have also plea bargained to sell out his wife. Either way, both of them are horrible people.
@Barbara ……The woman’s husband has been convicted on eight charges of child abuse and his sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 30.