The chilling reason evil mother gave for hiding 'emaciated' boy, 3, in urine-soaked conservatory with lizard and rabbit with only pet food to eat 'If either of you treated a dog like that, you would be going to prison'.
The couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court after severely neglecting their son to the point he tried to eat pet food (pictured).
This was what a horrified judge told a monstrous mother and father as he jailed them for neglecting a three-year-old boy so badly a doctor said he looked like he'd been kept in a 'concentration camp'.
While it was admitted in court that the mother could not 'give a good answer' as to why she had treated her son in such a shocking way, it was said that phone conversations suggested that she had 'failed to bond with him from birth'.
Medics raised concerns after the young boy was rushed to Queen's Medical Centre for critical care in July last year after turning blue and collapsing at a pub in Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire.
