• Roland Dow, 28, from New Hampshire has been jailed for 67 years
• He inflicted sadistic torture sessions on three-year-old James Nicholson 
• The boy was beaten, burnt and treated ‘like a caged animal’ by Dow 
• Dow even refused to have the child’s laundry mixed with his 
• James, now lame, is the son Dow’s girlfriend Jessica Linscott
• Linscott pleaded guilty to endangerment and will serve two to seven years
• The pair fled to Universal Orlando in Florida, where they were arrested

A man convicted of inflicting sadistic ‘torture sessions’ on his girlfriend’s three-year-old son before fleeing with her to a Florida theme park, has been jailed for 67 years. Roland Dow, 28, from Plaistow, New Hampshire, was sentenced yesterday for burning, blinding and treating James Nicholson, who is now lame, ‘like a caged animal’. He was convicted in June of assaulting the toddler, failing to get him medical help, coaching him to lie to a social worker and secretly recording the social worker’s visit. The young boy is the son of Dow’s girlfriend, Jessica Linscott, who pleaded guilty to child endangerment and witness tampering. She will be serving between two and seven years in prison. READ MORE HERE