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Foster carer caught on film attacking toddler
Mike Keegan
July 25, 2010


Glynis Liley was filmed attacking a toddler
A foster parent was caught on film kicking and force-feeding a toddler.

Glynis Liley was arrested after neighbours, appalled by her cruelty, set up a camcorder outside her home to catch her in the act.

They filmed her kicking the tot while it was on the floor and brutally force-feeding the child at her home in Heywood.

But despite pleading guilty to two charges of child cruelty, Liley was only handed a community sentence at Bolton Crown Court after a judge heard she was awaiting an operation and had been taking morphine and sleeping pills when she carried out the attacks.

The 48-year-old, who was working for Rochdale council at the time, was arrested after neighbours on Wilson Avenue showed police footage they had taken over two days through the house windows. Officers were so appalled at the clips that they went straight to Liley’s house to arrest her.

Gary Woodhall, prosecuting, said neighbour Damian Cosgrove decided to act after spotting Liley through the window hitting the child in the face with a mobile phone.

Mr Cosgrove said he also saw Liley make the child stand in one spot in the middle of the floor. When he returned to the street over an hour and a half later he noticed the child was still stood silently in the same spot, the court heard.

After Liley’s arrest, the child was examined by a doctor and found with bruising to its forehead, cheeks, knee and thigh and scratches on its neck – which indicated it had been ‘handled roughly’ said Mr Woodhall.

Liley repeatedly denied the offences, but changed her plea shortly before a trial was due to take place.

Katherine Pierpoint, defending, said Liley was ‘deeply ashamed’ of her behaviour.

Sentencing Liley, who had been a foster carer for 11 years, Judge Charles Bloom QC said: "This child was in desperate need of your warmth, your cherishing, your loving. You failed it. I accept that you are thoroughly ashamed of yourself and this was not sadism but impatience."

Liley will never be allowed to foster children again.

On her way out of court, Liley stopped to hurl abuse at Mr Cosgrove, 40, and his wife.

Det Con Alicia Smith, of Rochdale’s public protection unit, said: "Liley was in a position of trust, a position she clearly abused. Her rough and reckless approach to childcare was far too aggressive, and completely unacceptable"

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