Coventry mum who bit son so hard it broke the skin has children placed in care

[dutchman]

A Coventry mother, who ‘viciously’ bit her son so hard through his blazer that it broke the skin, has had her children taken away from her and placed in foster care.

The 43-year-old woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her children, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a child.

The boy and his younger sister are both with foster parents, with their mother now seeing them twice a week, a judge at Warwick Crown Court heard.

But after hearing that there are hopes the family will be reunited in about 12 months, Judge Sylvia de Bertodano gave the mother an eight-month prison sentence suspended for a year, with a ‘rehabilitation activity requirement.’

The 12-year-old boy caught the attention of staff last November when he appeared distressed when he arrived in school.

And when a teaching assistant asked him why he was upset, he revealed that his mother had bitten his arm that morning.

He said she had been agitated, and described it as ‘a vicious bite’ which had broken the skin even though he had been wearing his school blazer.

The police were contacted, and when he was interviewed he said his mother had also slapped him and tried to throw him down the stairs, which she denied doing.

Prosecutor Amy Edinborough said that as a result, the boy and his younger sister had both been placed into foster care.

She added that the mother had a conviction in 2007 for a similar offence when she had ‘backhanded’ the boy, causing his nose to bleed.

[Melisandre]

What did the lad do to deserve it and where is his father what help is he giving the mother bringing the kids up.