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Jamie JenningsA mother who subjected her young son to repeatedly misbehave, forcing her head to a cat in a trays, she is sentenced to six months in jail.
53 -year -old Ruth Anne Jenings of Oakwell Place in Maghera was sentenced on Monday after convicted in three cases of assault with his son Jamie Jennings in the London Deron Court.
The court was told that there were two attacks in 2012, with the third in 2016.
The then partner of Ruth Anne Jennings, Brian McMaster, 41, Upper Princess Street, Ballimana- were also sentenced to six months in jail on Monday.
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The court heard that in 2018, Jamie Jennings revealed a pattern of historical psychological and physical abuse in the last three to four years.
On one occasion, his mother became angry and forced his head to a cat in a tray.
In another event, he used a blade to cut on his chest.
Brian McMaster, the then partner of Ruth Anne Jennings, also convicted the attack with Jamie Jennings due to unnecessary suffering or injury.
The misuse occurred between 1 December 2016 and 31 March 2018, when he was under 16 years of age.
The court was told that McMaster would hold the hand of Jamie and squeeze him so tightly that he would be forced to the ground.
He also hit her at the genitals and when Jamie asked her to stop, he laughed.
McMaster claimed that he never used cruel force and was not intended to harm Jamie, which was between nine to 13 age groups during the period of misconduct.
‘Cruel and cruel courses of conduct’
Judge Neil Refety Casey said the two defenders continued to reduce or reject the misconduct, despite their guilty arguments.
He said that Jamie Jennings wrote to the court that he had described psychological and emotional trauma.
In her letter, Jamie said that she no longer refers to Ruth Anne Jennings as her mother, saying that she had failed to protect her and was not worth the title.
Judge Refety praised the victim for his flexibility and strength in coming forward.
“You did not deserve these crimes as a child,” he said.
“It was a callus and cruel course of conduct to grow up for you.
“I am glad that you have managed to get away and you have shown such important flexibility.”
talking to State of US Podcast of BBC Beyond the punishment, at the age of 21, Jamie Jennings said that however, on paper, the cat litter incident is not the worst thing that her mother did to her, this is what she sticks to her mind.
“He was angry at my brother and then came to me,” he said.
“Every day she gives you a list of things to do and the cat was not replaced.
“At that time we had five or six cats in this small utility room next to the kitchen.
“He pulled me there and threw me on the floor and nodded the cat’s garbage and picked up the bits with urine and pu and put it in my mouth.
“I was in shock and mistrust that it happened.”
Jamie said that he was nine or ten years old when he happened, and a stone and patience in his mouth is still clear in his mind.
“You are trying to spit it out and it is dry and dusty.
“It is like getting sand in your food.”
Along with cats, there were four small dogs in the family, as well as a St. Bernard and a Rotwiler.
He said that the house smells of animals of animals – their clothes, especially such Wells roaming on their school uniforms.
“I am going to school and I am smelling like dog urination and cat urination,” he said.
“My room had these cot beds and I did not use the top cot.”
He said that the cat was using the top cot as a garbage cans and the cam was growing on the bed.
FacebookJamie Jennings said he was unable to wash himself because the bath was “really filled with black bags with dirty clothes.”
“When I was getting ready for school, I will just go in and would printed a little water on my hair and I was for weeks,” he said.
Jamie left the house at the age of 14 and has separated from his mother since then:
“She was uncontrolled and demanding and scaring. She would just explode.”
He slipped her with a stanley knife on the chest, and on another occasion cut her hand and threw a pair of scissors at her.
He said that he did not apologize or tried to treat wounds, and did not re -refer to the events again.
FacebookWhen he went out, Jamie went to live with her grandmother and one of her brothers.
He said that Anubhav left an indelible mark.
“I felt that I was spoiled. I felt as if I was a rich child in a way. I was getting food every day and he received me a new uniform.
“My grandmother was cooking for me and my brother was eating. He was really like a father for me. I was taken to places like cinema and carting and bowling.”
But the deepest difference for Jamie was a clean school uniform.
“I remember going to school on the first day,” he said.
“This was the boy and he said: ‘What hell, sir. Who are you?” And I said: ‘Yes I’m different’.
“I felt renewed and it seems disgusting but I did not feel that sticky. I felt free.”
Jamie eventually informed his mother to the police, and the case took seven years to reach his conclusion.
Covid-19 was added to delay in epidemic and several adjourns.
At that time, he found employment, and recently, his partner gave birth to his first child.
“I was quite concerned about becoming a father, but I can never imagine doing any of these things for my daughter,” Jamie said.
“It is niggles on you and you that I did not get the treatment I am giving him.
“It wants you to give you the best treatment that you can.
“To give a chance to find foods on the table and find things that like it.”
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