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| A foster carer has been jailed for four years for beating girls she looked after and her husband has been given a three-year jail term for sexual abuse. | A foster carer has been jailed for four years for beating girls she looked after and her husband has been given a three-year jail term for sexual abuse. |
| Betty Roe, 64, of Hall Road, Norwich, who cared for about 280 children in the 1970s and 80s, denied cruelty charges on six girls. | Betty Roe, 64, of Hall Road, Norwich, who cared for about 280 children in the 1970s and 80s, denied cruelty charges on six girls. |
| Walter Roe, 64, admitted four offences of indecent assault. | |
| Their victims told Norwich Crown Court they were beaten with a broom and had soiled underwear rubbed in their faces. | |
| Mr Roe was put on the sex offenders' register for life. | |
| Judge Paul Downes described the actions of the couple as "humiliating" and branded some of their punishments as "despicable". |