A cold criminal or the victim?

This woman needs help and rehabilitation, says Jennifer Hough.

A cold criminal or the victim?

Is it right that a 34-year-old woman, who at 14 was abducted by a violent man 10 years her elder, is today in a prison cell for the neglect of the five children she bore him?

Another horrific case of child abuse came before our courts this week and saw a mother plead guilty to 10 counts of neglecting her own flesh and blood in the most extreme of ways.

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