US EditionWoman guilty of keeping slave for 25 years in Tewkesbury
Amanda Wixon exploited a teenage girl with learning difficulties for over 25 years as forced labor, with social services failing to intervene for two decades, court heard.
- At Gloucester Crown Court, jurors found Amanda Wixon guilty on six charges including forced labour and unlawful detention after keeping a teenage girl as a 'house slave' for more than 25 years.
- Forced domestic labour and childcare duties left the victim to care for Wixon's children while Wixon locked doors, used threats, and prevented her leaving for over 20 years.
- Court heard grisly details of assaults that included washing-up liquid forced down the throat and bleach splashed on the face, while police officers found the victim in mouldy, overcrowded rooms with bruises and missing teeth.
- Judge Ian Lawrie KC told Wixon a jail term was "a certainty" as he granted conditional bail ahead of her March sentencing hearing, and she showed no visible reaction to the verdict.
- Record gaps from hospitals and dentists, prosecutors say, underscore decades of unseen confinement as social services did nothing, Mr Jones said, while the victim now lives with a foster family and attends college.
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Amanda Wixon carried out systematic abuse against a young woman who survived the atrocity for 25 years.
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Stroud News & JournalGloucestershire mum-of-10's shocking words after horrific treatment of 'house slave'
A teenage girl was forced to work as a “house slave” for a woman and her 10 children for more than 25 years, a court heard.
It was in that space that a woman identified as K lived for more than 25 years, kept in custody within a house in Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire County, England. The local conditions came to the public for the first time after the publication of images taken by the police's body camera, issued during the trial at the Gloucester Cora Court. The sentence is for the month of February.
A court in England has found a 53-year-old woman guilty of holding another woman with a learning disability captive and treating her like a slave for 25 years.
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