The Ghost of Jealousy
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I hope this bitch gets whats coming to her in the jail.
Evil mum jailed for starving seven-year-old daughter to deat
Mar 13 2010 Danielle Dwyer
A MOTHER who allowed her seven-year-old daughter to starve to death was yesterday jailed for 15 years.
Khyra Ishaq was so malnourished when she died, health workers could not measure her body mass index.
She was 40 per cent underweight.
But behind her home's bolted kitchen door, the fridges and cupboards were crammed with food.
Harshness Khyra died in May 2008 from an infect ion after being starved and abused by depressed Angela Gordon and schizophrenic stepdad Junaid Abuhamza at her home in Handsworth, Birmingham.
A judge yesterday described the couple's punishment regime as "chilling in its harshness and cruelty".
Gordon, 35, and Abuhamza, 31, were cleared of the girl's murder at the city's crown court but found guilty of manslaughter. They admitted starving and abusing five other kids in their care.
Abuhamza was jailed indefinitely but must serve at least seven-and-a-half years. Neither defendant reacted as they were sentenced.
Mr Justice Roderick Evans told them: "Neglect is an inadequate and inappropriate description of the way these children were treated.
"They were subjected to a regime of punishment which was chilling in its harshness and cruelty.
"A regime introduced by you, Abuhamza, as it had its origins in your own upbringing, but a regime to which you, Gordon, became a party."
The court was told the children were beaten with a cane, made to stand out in the cold or in front of a fan and doused with cold water.
The children were given one bowl of food - porridge or carrots, beans, eggs and rice - to share between them in the room where they slept on bare mattresses.
They were beaten if they ate too much.
Birmingham's social work depar tment have brought in major changes since Khyra's death.
Evil mum jailed for starving seven-year-old daughter to deat
Mar 13 2010 Danielle Dwyer
A MOTHER who allowed her seven-year-old daughter to starve to death was yesterday jailed for 15 years.
Khyra Ishaq was so malnourished when she died, health workers could not measure her body mass index.
She was 40 per cent underweight.
But behind her home's bolted kitchen door, the fridges and cupboards were crammed with food.
Harshness Khyra died in May 2008 from an infect ion after being starved and abused by depressed Angela Gordon and schizophrenic stepdad Junaid Abuhamza at her home in Handsworth, Birmingham.
A judge yesterday described the couple's punishment regime as "chilling in its harshness and cruelty".
Gordon, 35, and Abuhamza, 31, were cleared of the girl's murder at the city's crown court but found guilty of manslaughter. They admitted starving and abusing five other kids in their care.
Abuhamza was jailed indefinitely but must serve at least seven-and-a-half years. Neither defendant reacted as they were sentenced.
Mr Justice Roderick Evans told them: "Neglect is an inadequate and inappropriate description of the way these children were treated.
"They were subjected to a regime of punishment which was chilling in its harshness and cruelty.
"A regime introduced by you, Abuhamza, as it had its origins in your own upbringing, but a regime to which you, Gordon, became a party."
The court was told the children were beaten with a cane, made to stand out in the cold or in front of a fan and doused with cold water.
The children were given one bowl of food - porridge or carrots, beans, eggs and rice - to share between them in the room where they slept on bare mattresses.
They were beaten if they ate too much.
Birmingham's social work depar tment have brought in major changes since Khyra's death.
As crazy as this sounds, i feel bad for the parents, I really wish they would have gotten mental help earlier in their lives. I sometimes can't fathom the amount of "crazy" people out there walking around. *gulp* psychology(or psychiatry) here I come :mello:
