A mother shaved her 10-year-old son’s hair and eyebrows to pretend he had cancer and pocketed £85,000 (Dh 495,953) in benefits.
The 37-year-old mom is now jailed for three years and nine months, according to a Daily Mail report.
Neighbours at their Gloucestershire countryside residence say they were a normal middle-class family with three well-behaved children.
However, one of them did mention that the father had lost his job in recession and yet the family managed to go on expensive trips, but they did not suspect anything wrong.
But then they started driving around in a new car, and that raised doubts. Soon they saw the otherwise bubbly 10-year-old strapped to a wheel chair sporting a clean shaven head. And the woman cried announcing he had cancer.
She shaved his hair and eyebrows and banned him from playing with friends or even taking part in physical activities at school. She sent him to school in a bandana and pleaded with his teachers to have it removed lest he got bullied.
Teen unmasks rapist dad
A brave teenager has unmasked her ‘rapist’ father and played an instrumental role in having him jailed.
According to a
Daily Mail report, the 17-year-old had gone to visit her dad at his Derbyshire home, when he made her drink wine and put her to bed before climbed in beside her.
She told court that she felt something was wrong when she woke up the next morning, and her fears were confirmed when he insisted she took morning-after pills.
Her parents have been separated for sometime. Her mother says she too had an abusive marriage with him until they separated. She now blames herself for having allowed her daughter to visit him alone.
She claimed thathe had been abusing her since she was 14 but she never had the courage to speak out.
Meanwhile, the 54-year-old man, who has denied sexual assault charges, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
The brave teenager is now in the process of changing her surname. She has burnt all photographs with him and is determined not to be associated with him at all.
Dog kills cat…man gets prison term
A man punished for ‘animal’ crime. An 82-year-old man in Florida has been sentenced to three years in prison for allowing his dog to kill another family’s cat.
According to a
Daily Mail report, the man was caught on camera taking his dog for a walk and strolling towards where the cat was lying. The dog was then filemd to attack the cat, while he tried separating the animals.
He managed to set free the cat, and walked away with his dog. But the cat later succumbed to its injuries.
The cat’s family said the cat was their daughter’s pet for 12 years and filed a case.
He was found guilty of trespassing and animal cruelty.
Girl faints on seeing phone lover
A young girl from the South Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram set out to seek her ‘lover’ only to faint upon seeing him.
According to a
NDTV report, the 23-year-old engineering post-graduate had been speaking to a man for the past year, who professed his love for her.
They spoke over mobile phone and she adored him, so much so she set out to meet him. She loitered at the bus stand and began roaming the streets of the place he said he hailed from.
Some people guided her to the police station and the cops tracked down her ‘boyfriend’. But to her bewilderment when he arrived at the station, he was a grey-haired 67-year-old man.
She was so shocked that she fainted on seeing him. The man, meanwhile, said he had been speaking to her “just for fun”.
Police informed her parents and returned her to them.
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