Liam was only two years old.
Rachel Fee, 31, and her partner Nyomi Fee, 29, are to blame for little Liam’s death. And thankfully, the case concluded on Wednesday. Rachel and Nyomi were sentenced to life in prison, as they should be.
Horrifically, reports state it was not abnormal for the pair to inflict such abuse on Liam. Liam, along with two other boys whose names or ages cannot be publicized to the media for legal reasons, had apparently been suffering for quite some time.
The Mirror U.K. reported the abuse that all three boys had to experience for approximately 2 years:
The youngsters were beaten, smacked and called humiliating names, deprived of food as a punishment, restrained with cable ties, and denied access to the toilet at night-time, the court heard.
This abuse involved being imprisoned in a home-made cage, given cold showers, tied up in a dark room where snakes and rats were kept, and forced to eat dog excrement, a court heard.
One of the boys also had his face rubbed in soiled underwear and was made to eat his own vomit.
To make matters worse, the two had reportedly Googled ‘can wives be in prison together' before they were convicted.
The Daily Mail reported that the two won’t actually serve their time in prison together. So if they murdered Liam so they could escape the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood in order to be alone together for the rest of their lives, that didn’t work.
Matt Forde, Head of Service for NSPCC Scotland, an organization meant to help children in abusive households, was pleased with the couple's sentencing, stating:
"Those responsible for Liam's brutal murder have quite rightly received long jail terms. It is incomprehensible how two people who were meant to look after the children in their care could subject them to such appalling abuse"
I second that.