A “sadistic” mum who burned her five-year-old son with cigarettes and intentionally slammed his face against a staircase has been jailed. The woman subjected the boy to a traumatising campaign of cruelty, even bragging in one text message: “I just smacked him so hard he flew across the room.” A court heard how the beatings she unleashed upon her son at their Kent home left him with “psychological scars that may never heal”. The mum – who is not being named to prevent the identification of her victim – was crying as she entered the dock at Canterbury Crown Court to be sentenced. Summarising the…
