Mother who sexually abused her young daughter, burnt her with a light bulb and hit her fingers with a hammer is jailed for six years

A mother who sexually abused her own young daughter, burning her with a lightbulb, forcing her to drink salt water and hitting her fingers with a hammer was jailed today. The girl was just five-years-old when her mother’s campaign of abuse started, and was only able to escape the torment when she ran away from home at 12.  She broke down in tears at Liverpool Crown Court today, sobbing uncontrollably as a judge told her mother that she ‘robbed her of her childhood’ by her persistent abuse, and sentenced the older woman to six years and eight months in prison. READ MORE HERE