Suspended sentences for 'toddler fight' women

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(L to R) Zara Care, Carole Olver, Danielle Olver, and Ferenza Olver

outside Plymouth crown court in Devon. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

Four "callous" women who forced a pair of toddlers into fighting and filmed

them as they punched each other today escaped jail sentences.

The women, all from the same Plymouth family, goaded the boy and girl

into hitting each other until they cried, and called the boy a "wimp" and a

"faggot" when he did not fight back.

The incident was filmed on a video camera and discovered by chance by a

person, who reported it to social services, Plymouth crown court heard.

When interviewed by police, one of the women said: "I didn't see any harm

in toughening them up - I done the same with my own children."

Zara Care, 29, Carole Olver, 48, Serenza Olver, 29, and Danielle Olver, 19,

were today given 12-month sentences, suspended for two years, after

admitting child cruelty charges.

The eight-minute film was "shocking to watch", judge Francis Gilbert said as

he passed sentence.

"You laughed at them, you mocked them, you swore at them," he said. "You

compelled them to hit each other even though they clearly did not want to.

You were cruel, callous, clearly causing the children to hurt each other for

your own pleasure."

The video shows the boy and girl - neither of whom was identified in court -

in tears but still being shouted at to carry on by the laughing women.

At one point the boy, wearing a nappy and a T-shirt, is cheered for repeatedly

hitting the girl around the head with a magazine, before a hairbrush is thrown

into the room to be used as a weapon.

When the boy cries after being punched in the face he is told "not to be a wimp"

and to hit her back. At another stage he tries to get away by climbing into an

armchair as the women urge the girl to punch him again.

When she does, the boy is urged to fight back, but says: "No, I don't want to."

Care pleaded guilty to causing or procuring the children to be ill-treated in a

manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury. The other three admitted

jointly inciting the ill-treatment of children.

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[Niels Bohr 72]

Oh my! Horrible!

[CarolineM 0]

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real classy bunch

[Emancipation 2]

some things are beyond understanding.. Hopefully they all recieve some SERIOUS counselling..

[irishgirl73 1]

pure trash

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

Daniel

:energetic:

[eric&gen 0]

Nothing but a bunch of trailer park trash hoes. They do not deserve to have kids.

[Jasman0717 9]

Nothing but a bunch of trailer park trash hoes. They do not deserve to have kids.

[MrsBruce5 0]

A bunch of pigs that society would clearly benefit from their sterilization...

[Chuckles 0]

I like their choice of "courtroom attire"

[MrsBruce5 0]

I like their choice of "courtroom attire"

Yes, very sexy indeed.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Chavettes...

[kaydee457 13]

Another reason I have, and love so dearly, my FOREIGN born wife.....There's no shortage of this kind of trash here in the US of A.

I used to think Springer was just an entertainment "put-on". I now know different....

[Alex+R 0]

Another reason I have, and love so dearly, my FOREIGN born wife.....There's no shortage of this kind of trash here in the US of A.

I used to think Springer was just an entertainment "put-on". I now know different....

Except of course that these lovely ladies are English...

[Ban Hammer 13,972]

Another reason I have, and love so dearly, my FOREIGN born wife.....There's no shortage of this kind of trash here in the US of A.

I used to think Springer was just an entertainment "put-on". I now know different....

Except of course that these lovely ladies are English...

an inconvenient truth, eh?