‘If either of you treated a dog like that, you would be going to prison’.
This was what a horrified judge told a monstrous mother and father as he jailed them for neglecting a three-year-old boy so badly a doctor said he looked like he’d been kept in a ‘concentration camp’.
The couple from Nottingham, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were found to have habitually left the young boy alone in the conservatory away from their other children with only a pet lizard and rabbit to keep him company.
He was so starved he tried to eat pet food.
But the most chilling detail of this case is the sickening reason for the ill-treatment found in text messages between the parents.
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