A person and girl are going through jail for the horrific neglect of 4 younger youngsters. Shane Curran, 47, and Nicola McCall, 44, left the children ravenous whereas residing in a grimy "dump" of a home piled with garbage in Glasgow.
One advised how she was compelled to steal cash merely to get one thing to eat. Jurors heard how the youngsters had been uncovered to medication - together with amphetamine - being in full view in the home.
Three of the younger victims additionally suffered bodily violence together with one lady who described being "rag-dolled" by McCall.
Curran and McCall had been convicted following a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court docket. They had been each discovered responsible of wilfully ill-treating and neglecting all 4 youngsters.
The pair had been additionally convicted of assaulting one lady. The jury additional discovered Curran responsible of attacking a boy and McCall one other of the ladies.
They'd their bail continued pending sentencing within the New 12 months. The costs spanned between April 2010 and August 2016.
In her speech to jurors, fiscal Carrie Stevens mentioned there was a "constant failure" by Curran and McCall to maintain the victims "protected and cozy" once they had been with them.
The pair's home was described as "chaotic and sub-standard". Pre-recorded proof from the youngsters talking about their ordeals was performed through the trial.
One of many women described the property as "disgusting" and that Curran and McCall "didn't clear or actually care".
Concerning meal occasions, the courtroom heard there was "by no means any meals within the cabinets" with the youngsters "recurrently disadvantaged".
The lady mentioned: "I needed to steal £100 to get meals for me (and the opposite youngsters) for about two days." Two of the children additionally ended up affected by extreme head lice.
Jurors had been advised among the victims had been recurrently punched, kicked, pulled and dragged by the hair. The moods of Curran and McCall, each from Glasgow, would change once they took medication.
Describing one incident with McCall, the lady defined: "She rag-dolled me, flung me onto the bottom and bashed my head off the door."
The trial additionally heard how illicit substances mendacity within the property dangerously "accessible" to the youngsters. One of many women was as soon as left unsupervised on a balcony.
Miss Stevens advised jurors: "You would possibly bear in mind (one of many women) saying Curran and McCall 'didn't care, in order that they did something they wished'.
"You would possibly assume that sums up the perspective of each and the unhappiness, frustration and confusion felt by the youngsters."
Curran and McCall denied the costs whereas successfully claiming the victims had been mendacity in regards to the violence. Sheriff Stuart Reid adjourned the case for studies.
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