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Babysitter Jailed for 4 Years for Cigarette Burns and Forcing Boy to Eat Dog Food

She pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to child cruelty offences, receiving a four-year, three-month term.

Overview

  • Siann Cawley, 27, from Fleetwood, was sentenced on October 7 at Preston Crown Court.
  • The offences included assault occasioning actual bodily harm, ill-treatment, neglect and abandonment following a guilty plea.
  • The court heard the abuse took place over roughly three weeks while the boy was in her care.
  • Prosecutors said she put out cigarettes on his body and forced him to eat dog food, leaving him alone in the house for hours.
  • Cawley is serving her sentence at HMP Styal in Cheshire.