'The woman who gave birth to me destroyed my life': Daughter recounts horrific cruelty at hands of her mother

Woman had pleaded to two charges of cruelty to a child relating to her two daughters, when one was aged 12 to 15 and her younger daughter

The two daughters gave evidence at the sentencing hearing for their mother at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Picture: Larry Cummins

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Two girls have spoken out about the frightening cruelty they experienced for years at the hands of their own mother in the family home — one of the victims declaring she never imagined she would be describing “how the woman who gave birth to me destroyed my life”.