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Australia: Woman jailed for torturing bed-wetting boy

Minuteman - Thu, 2012-09-20 14:52

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'A woman who tortured a six-year-old boy with lit matches and heated knives as punishment for wetting the bed has been sentenced to four years behind bars.

Mango Ahmed Adan, 22, also tied the child up and locked him inside a small garden shed, the Brisbane District Court heard on Thursday.
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The court heard Adan put tape over the boy's mouth, held him down over some steps in her yard and asked his sister to hold a heated knife against his face; which she did.

Adan then took a heated knife and put it against his back.

On a separate occasion, Adan held lit matches to the boy's legs, the court heard.
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Defence lawyer Debra Wardle told the court Adan, who grew up in Somalia, had been subject to similar forms of punishment from her grandmother.

"I'm told that she has scarring to her chest and belly area and back from knives," Ms Wardle said.'