Ian Tatro | 7th Circuit Solicitor’s Office SOUTH CAROLINA (WJCL) — A man in South Carolina has been sentenced to decades behind bars for subjecting an 8-year-old child to physical, emotional, and psychological abuse. On Monday, 28-year-old Ian Tatro, of Wellford, pleaded guilty to 20 counts of unlawful neglect of a child and one count of obstruction of justice. The seventh circuit solicitor’s office said the crimes occurred while the child lived with her stepmother and father, Tatro. According to court documents, the child was given animal feces as a Christmas gift, made to stand in a garbage can for hours with trash thrown on her, locked in a closet, made to wear a diaper, being placed in “hypothermia baths,” restricted from using a bathroom, repeatedly hit with a cutting board, yelled at, force-fed laxatives, and beaten by Tatro. “He [Tatro] would give her gummy laxatives and she thought it was candy because that’s what he told her,” Asst. Solicitor Tony Leibert reportedly said during previous proceedings. “She would defecate on herself and she would have to clean it up, and [he would] make her wear pullups at 8 years old. He said that he wished her mother had vacuumed her out before she was born and wish he could kill her and get away with it.” Once, when the child threw up, Tatro reportedly forced her to eat the vomit, prosecutors said. Officials said Tatro also used temporary tattoos to disguise the bruises left on the child from the abuse. Cases against the others who participated in the abuse remain pending. “The amount of abuse this child suffered at the hands of adults who should have loved and cared for her is staggering,” Solicitor Barry J. Barnette said. “The abuse was not just physical abuse but repeated psychological abuse.” Circuit Court Judge R. Keith Kelly sentenced Tatro to a total of 50 years in prison.The post Man who forced child to take ‘hypothermia baths’ and eat vomit is sentenced for horrific abuse appeared first on East Idaho News.
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Man who forced child to take ‘hypothermia baths’ and eat vomit is sentenced for horrific abuse
