Mother of five convicted for child cruelty

A mother of five has been convicted of child cruelty following a seven-week trial which heard dozens of allegations of horrific sexual abuse against her youngest son.

The 38-year-old woman, who is from the UK, has already been found not guilty of sexual assault relating to allegations she had sex or simulated sex with her child when he was between six and seven.

On Friday, the jury convicted the woman’s 64-year-old partner, also from the UK, of nine counts of raping his son from the age of six years old and child cruelty. They acquitted him of raping the child with a poker.