{"id":65649,"date":"2014-11-17T09:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T09:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=65649"},"modified":"2014-11-17T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T09:28:00","slug":"woman-sentenced-to-78-years-for-beating-up-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=65649","title":{"rendered":"Woman sentenced to 78 years for beating up children"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heartless mum who admitted to beating, whipping and waterboarding her\u00a0three children has been sentenced to 78 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Lakechia Schonta Stanley, 34, pleaded guilty to a total of 34 charges, including several counts of assault and endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n

The shocking scale of abuse only came to light in 2011 when one of the children, then 10 years old, told her school librarian she had a severe pain in her arm.<\/p>\n

She was taken to hospital were doctors established that she had been hit with such force that the blood supply to her limb was restricted, reports SLT Today.<\/p>\n

It later turned out that Stanley, from St Louis, US, beat the young girl with a baseball bat because she hadn’t cleaned the kitchen quickly enough, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

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Botanical Avenue, ST Louis, US<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The youngster then revealed Stanley also beat her youngster sister aged 8 with the bat because she spent too long in the shower.<\/p>\n

Further interviews with the girl revealed a shocking pattern of abuse that included them being whipped with electrical cords, forced into scalding or freezing showers, and beaten with several different blunt objects.<\/p>\n

Medical examinations showed the three children had significant scarring all across their bodies – and suffered severe emotional trauma from their ordeal.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors described the prolonged pattern of abuse as “systematic torture” and on Friday, Stanley was sentenced to 78 years in prison.<\/p>\n

During sentencing, assistant circuit attorney Tanja Engelhardt said: “What the defendant did to three of her own children far exceeds the definition of child abuse and amounts to systematic torture.<\/p>\n

“She was supposed to be their mother, the one person they could trust. Instead she became a symbol of betrayal and fear, using every tool at her disposal to beat and torture her own innocent children.”<\/p>\n

Her husband Andrew Stanley, who pleaded guilty last year to related charges, was sentenced to 160 years in prison.<\/p>\n

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Source: Mirror.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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