Washington man and obese wife sentenced to 20 years in prison for torturing 6-year old through starvation, beatings, and disgusting ‘hot dog smoothies’

Two parents from Auburn, Washington have been sentenced to two decades in prison for starving and physically abusing their six year old son.

(Article by Jonathan Zhou, Epoch Times, republished from http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2041488-parents-who-fed-starving-child-hot-dog-smoothies-get-20-years-in-prison/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=all&utm_term=1381&utm_campaign=regular-post)

Christopher Sefton and Lori Lloyd had subjected Sefton’s son to both physical and psychological abuse. At home, they had often deprived the child of sleep, and forced him to do calisthenics.

The child was often fed hot dog smoothies mixed with vegetable oil, and teachers at school had found the emaciated child looking through the trash-cans for food.

“They were using food to torture him,” said senior prosecutor Cecelia Gregson, the Seattle PI reports. “It has the added benefit of trying to kill him, but it was a very effective form of torture.”

Help finally arrived in March of 2014, when the boy had to be taken to the hospital after Sefton gave the boy a beating for not tying his shoelaces properly, which caused him to shake uncontrollably.

At the hospital, they found that the boy had a swollen belly—a symptom of malnutrition—and swollen joints.

The boy told investigators that his parents sometimes forced him to do push ups while wearing a backpack filled with canned food.

Staffers at school tried to feed the child, who was losing weight, but his parents told them not to, and referenced “dietary restrictions.”

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