Jailed: Kirsty Stevenson, left, 23, and Layla Ridgement, 22, right, were sent to prison for five years after the judge described the case as 'one of the most appalling cases to come before the court for some time'
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5 Years? Are you kidding me? These women should be jailed for life! Forget what the books say!
Two young mothers who locked a teenage autistic girl in a room before they brutally beat, robbed and stripped her, have been jailed for five years.
The sadistic attack happened in St Austell, Cornwall, where vulnerable 39-year-old Steven Hoskin was drugged and tortured before a gang forced him onto a viaduct where he was pushed to his death six years ago.
After the attack the tormentors unlocked the door and freed their victim, who was dressed just in her underwear, into a cold and wet November night in 2010.
A judge described it as ‘one of the most appalling cases to come before the court for some time’.
Judge Christopher Harvey Clark, QC, told 22-year-old Layla Ridgement and five months pregnant Kirsty Stevenson, 23: 'Both of you acted with extreme callousness and brutality towards a 17-year-old girl suffering from autism.'
Ridgement has a son and Stevenson has a 16-month-old child and she is expecting twins in September.
The judge said as he jailed the pair yesterday: 'This is a particularly serious case which involved sadistic cruelty to a very vulnerable young woman.
'The facts will shake anyone who hears or reads of them.
'The victim was 17, autistic, of low intelligence, easily led and trusting - she takes people at face value. You lured her to Ridgement’s flat and locked the door. You showed her no mercy.
Truro Crown Court (pictured) heard a bottle was smashed over the girl's head, she was punched and kicked in the face, robbed of her clothes, shoes and mobile phone and then left to walk home in just her underwear.
'You Stevenson, smashed a bottle over her head, punched her in the face, pulled her hair and kneed her in the face. The girl was in tears of pain and pleaded with you both to stop and let her go.
'You demanded she hand over her telephone and told her to take off her clothes. Only when you had robbed and humiliated her did you allow her to leave in her underwear.
'You then went to the supermarket, purchased more alcohol and went on drinking and no doubt laughing about what you had done to that poor girl.'
The victim’s mother said the teenager’s mental state had declined ‘since these cruel and humiliating acts were perpetrated upon her’, said the judge.
He added: 'I take into account your ages but the sentences must also take into account the public sense of revulsion and horror at the sadistic cruelty you showed to an autistic girl.'
Both young women were convicted of false imprisonment and Ridgement was also fund guilty of robbery, which Stevenson admitted.
Prosecutor David Evans said the victim had been lured to Ridgement’s home where they were going to give her ‘a slapping’ for ‘gossiping’ about one of them.
But Truro Crown Court heard a bottle was smashed over her head, she was punched and kicked in the face, robbed of her clothes, shoes and mobile phone and then left to walk home in just her underwear on a very cold and wet night.
Mr Evans said: 'She was utterly terrified and she begged them to stop and allow her to leave the house.
'She was then humiliated by Stevenson ordering her to strip to her underwear. Fearing further violence the girl could do nothing and she took off her top, her jumper, jogging bottoms and her shoes before she was allowed to leave.
'Nearly naked, bloodied and distressed she was told to make her own way home in the cold, the wet and rain. She was warned not to tell the police otherwise they would kill her.'
The victim’s 47-year-old mother said after the case: 'This happened just metres from where Steven Hoskin was killed. It is a similar scenario and the fact that she is alive is a miracle.
'Thank God we still have a daughter. I was shocked that there are people in the community who could behave in such a malicious manner.
'They did so much to her. I never thought for a second something like this would happen to her.
'But I am sure the family of Steven Hoskin never thought for a second that it would happen to them.'
She called her daughter a ‘little autistic child’.
Stevenson, from Camborne, Cornwall, and Ridgement, from St Austell, had only known each other a few days before the attack.
Two men, who were part of a gang, were convicted of the murder of Steven Hoskin who suffered from severe learning difficulties.
Culled from The Daily Mail UK.
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