A nine-year-old girl who said she had never had a birthday party is to live with a relative after a family judge concluded that she had been mistreated by her mother.The youngster had told of her mother "whacking and beating" her with her hand and sometimes hitting her with a wooden spoon, said Judge Stephen Wildblood.And a social worker had explained how the girl's mother did not like to "engage in play" or see the "benefit of socialisation".The girl said she had...
Reported by Western Daily Press 6 hours ago.
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