'Spare the rod, spoil the child': secretly recorded parents jailed for 'relentless' physical and emotional abuse of six children

A man in his fifties and a woman in her forties have been sentenced to a combined eight and a half years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following their conviction for the systematic abuse of six children over several years. The man received six years and three months, with nine months suspended, while the woman was sentenced to three years and nine months, also with nine months suspended. Judge…