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| Gloucestershire child neglect couple jailed | Gloucestershire child neglect couple jailed |
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| A couple jailed for neglecting five of their children have been branded "inadequate, stupid, stubborn and reckless" by a judge. | |
| Nine children lived in unhygienic conditions. Bedrooms smelt of urine and animal faeces and mattresses were soiled, Gloucester Crown Court heard. | Nine children lived in unhygienic conditions. Bedrooms smelt of urine and animal faeces and mattresses were soiled, Gloucester Crown Court heard. |
| The pair from Gloucestershire were due be sentenced last week but it was delayed after they took an overdose. | |
| The mother was sentenced to two years nine months; the father for two years. | The mother was sentenced to two years nine months; the father for two years. |
| The court heard the couple cared for the children - all of them the mother's - but only the youngest three were fathered by her husband. | |
| At an earlier hearing, the pair pleaded guilty to neglecting five children, between 2007 and 2012. The ages of the children ranged from a baby to a young teenager. | |
| Charges relating to the other four will lie on file. | |
| Treated lice with mayonnaise | |
| The children were reported as often being dirty and smelly and suffered badly with head lice infestations, which the mother told police she had treated with mayonnaise. | |
| It was after the youngest child was admitted to hospital with severe nappy rash, which had left ulcers on the child's skin, that police arrested the couple. | |
| When officers searched the house they found it in an unhygienic state - carpets and walls were filthy, rubbish and clothes were strewn everywhere and a plug socket was left hanging out of the wall. | |
| In a child's bedroom, ivy had come in from outside and was growing across the wall. |