Angela Hassan abused three children in the 70s and 80s including the youngest Steve after they were put into her care by social services. The 78-year-old, of Motherwell, was sentenced to 300 hours community service as “direct alternative” to custody.
A man who was beaten, force-fed and humiliated by his foster carer at just five years old has expressed his horror as his tormentor escaped jail.
“I was young and I’d regularly wet the bed. She would humiliate me by making me take down my pants and trousers in front of other people. “I’d try to hide the bed sheets under the bed. The other children there would help make the bed but sometimes the sheet wouldn’t be changed and I’d just have to lie on the wet sheets.”He said: “If I didn’t like what was for dinner or finish it, she’d mush it up, hold me down and force feed me until I was sick. If you didn’t eat it all, you’d be given it again the next night and you’d be faced with this food til it was gone.
“For her, it was all about the money, she got paid per child and that’s why she wanted us there. The day I was reunited with Mum was fantastic, the nightmare was over.”
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