Parents forced boy, 11, to live in filthy coal bunker
Bullied and constantly hungry, the traumatised child was made to live and sleep in the room described as a “cell” by social workers, and reduced to using a potty as he was locked up at night until morning, Preston Crown Court heard.
The room was described as “freezing” with no heating, a bare lightbulb, concrete walls and floor. The child was left to sleep on a dirty mattress.
