Child Sexual Abuse Trial Causes Judge to Nearly Break Down

This is not surprising if you allow yourself to dwell on the suffering of the children. There are occasions when I just find myself face down on the floor with tears flowing. But the message has to get out and far too many people either don't know the incredible horrors of child sex abuse or the hardly believable extent of it, or they don't want to know. And the children themselves, they are voiceless and are in desperate need for advocates.

If there is something you can do to raise the awareness of child sex abuse, please, for the sake of the millions of children who will suffer this year, do it. If you are a praying person, please pray every day; you may never know this side of Heaven how many children you saved from having their lives devastated.

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A British judge nearly broke down during sentencing for a couple who sadistically and repeatedly raped two young girls.

Judge Denis Watson’s voice wavered as he described some of the circumstances surrounding the charges Michael Miszczak, 54, and his ex-wife, Sandra Jones, 52, were being sentenced for in Liverpool Crown Court.

“I don’t think I will ever forget listening to the evidence,” an emotional Watson said, according to the Daily Mail. “That event, it was so appalling, I find it difficult to control the repetition of what occurred.

“It was wickedly cruel, chillingly heartless and utterly inhuman.”

During the trial, the jury heard the two victims, who were eight years old when the abuse started, were forced to eat their own — and each other’s — vomit, had their faces rubbed into their own urine and were often beaten. Miszczak repeatedly raped one of the girls after plying her with booze and forcing her to watch porn with him.

The victims, now adults, “suffered significant psychological trauma as a result of their ordeal at the hands of these defendants,” prosecutor Michael Scholes said.

Watson sentenced Miszczak to 25 years in prison for what police described as “some of the most despicable crimes against children” they had seen. Jones will serve 14 years for the horrific crimes.

Miszczak was found guilty of 10 charges, including child rape and child cruelty. Jones was convicted on four charges, including aiding and abetting rape, assault causing actual bodily harm and child cruelty.