I really don't understand African parents, I know the Bible says spare the rod and spoil the child, but beating your child with all sorts of things in the name of trying to bring them up the right way is a big no no. This is inhumane, why have kids when you know you can not care for them or show them love. A Nigerian couple in the UK Joseph and Gloria Musa, have being sentenced to jail for seven years each for battery and maltreatment of their lovely kids. According to the Telegraph.
The Nigerian couple, who claimed their kids were possessed by evil spirits, beat them with brooms hoovers and wires and even gave their baby a morphine overdose just days after her first birthday.
The kids were finally rescued after their eldest daughter threw a heart wrenching SOS note out of a window. For more on this story click on read moreThe plight of the children was so bad that Ms Collins, who met them at a church lunch took them to the cinema "because she felt sorry for them."
She gave evidence as a prosecution witness during the trial of the parents, both 40, who can not be named to protect their six children.
But the parents claimed they were victims of a conspiracy and even alleged Ms Collins was involved in a witch hunt against them and wanted to 'steal' their children.
The youngster who they nearly killed had been allowed to stay by in the home by Haringey council,who were involved in the Baby P and Victoria Climbie cases, despite the fact the five other children had to be rescued.
sentencing them to seven years behind bars each Judge James Patrick described it as "shocking mistreatment" that they had tried to cover up with a "Web of deception."
Judge Patrick noted: "No one who sat through this trial could help but be moved by the fact that these intelligent, charming, fun, lovable children continue to love you despite what you put them through."
The married couple denied the allegations claiming they were victims of a racist witch hunt but were found guilty of cruelty to a person under 16.
They argued the children had been "brainwashed" into making the allegations by the police, the London Borough of Haringey and former generosity and kindness, a member of a housing charity, social workers and foster carers.
"Those who had taken the trouble to support you were repeatedly accused of dishonesty, lying, and conspiracy to rob you of your children when the reality was that both of you were lying in fact they were simply seeking to give your children stability."
The abuse came to the attention of police in April 2010 when their nine year old wrote an sos note and threw it out of the bedroom window.
The heart breaking plea read: "My mum is the worst mum ever because she can't cope with five of us, her broken hand and being pregnant. She always leaves me out so I always starve and I am forced to work.
"If I don't get enough house work done, I am beaten without mercy with the wooden end of a broom. I have scars all over me to prove it. I can't stay here. I would like a new mum."
It was found by a neighbour who called the police, and when officers attended the address they found the children living in messy conditions with "dirty" and "dishevelled" clothing.
Revealing scars the eldest said her mother had hit her with a cable, broom, and a hoover and her father had dangled her by the feet down the stairwell of the house, tied her hands behind her back and legs together "to get the devilish spirits out", prosecutor Emma Smith said.
Her sister, who was seven at the time, had a stick shaped bruise on her thigh and after a few months in care she drew a series of pictures showing her dad beating her and her being left home alone and including a speech bubble saying "I'm hungry."
The children were left home alone for hours, sometimes days on end, with the elder kids forced to look after the others.
They had even been forced to lie to a charity and social services that they were living alone with their mother in one room and had no idea who their dad was so they could scam benefits.
Even during the trial the eldest feared she had torn her family apart with her "devastating cry from the heart in the form of a letter which she threw from the window", the judge noted.
There was an investigation but no further action, and the five children remained in care until the parents once again came to police attention on 28 June last year.
"But for the events of June 28 you would have gotten away with your crimes because of a merciful decision not to prosecute you". Judge Patrick noted.
Having given birth to another daughter, who was also initially taken into care but then returned to her parents, they bought her to St Thomas's Hospital just days after her first birthday.
Without treatment she could have been brain damaged of suffered cardio respiratory arrest and death but quick thinking Doctors managed to save the youngster who it is believed was giving morphine orally that morning.
Jurors rejected the parents conspiracy theories. When they are released the face deportation back to Nigeria despite pleas from their legal team that they have been "punished enough" by having their children taken into care.
As they left the court they wailed: "We are innocent, this is a miscarriage of justice."
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