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Mother-of-10 kept girl as 'house slave' for more than 25 years
A teenage girl with learning difficulties spent more than 25 years working as a "house slave" for a woman and her 10 children, a court has heard.
From 1995 until 2021, the woman - now in her 40s - was trapped in the squalid home of 56-year-old Amanda Wixon in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. There she endured regular beatings and was hit with a broom handle, knocking out her teeth, the jury was told.
She also had washing up liquid squirted down her throat, bleach splashed on her face, and her head repeatedly shaved against her will. Trapped in a 'prison cell' The home in the Priors Park area was overcrowded and dirty, with plaster hanging off the mouldy walls, and rubbish strewn across the back garden.
The woman lived off scraps, and despite the grim conditions, was not allowed to leave, nor even to wash, doing so secretly at night. Police said the woman's benefits had also been paid into Wixon's bank account from the late 1990s, with her receiving a "considerable sum" of money over the years.
Officers were tipped off about the woman's situation by one of Wixon's sons, and went to the house in March 2021. They described the woman's bedroom as looking like a "prison cell.
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