Mother Jailed for Abusing Adopted Baby
On March - 22 - 2014
A mother who abused her adopted son for more than a decade, beating him and locking him in darkness for a year, has today been jailed. Jean Robinson beat her son Joseph for 11 years, after adopting him as an 18-month-old baby. The 62-year-old locked him away without access to a toilet, caging him in total darkness for a year. Robinson was today sentenced to 12 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of willful assault at Preston Crown Court. Speaking after the hearing, Joseph, now 27 and a dad himself, said: ‘It started when I was adopted at 18 months old and went on until I was 11. ‘She did awful things to me, and I used to wonder why she hated me so much. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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