A man who waterboarded a six-year-old girl and forced her to run barefoot on a treadmill for up to four-and-a-half hours so she would sleep at bedtime has been jailed for 12 years.
Garth Gatland, 39, of Austin Drive, Cambridge, was described as “sadistic” after he was convicted of two counts of child cruelty at an earlier trial and was sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court on Tuesday.
He had denied the charges against two children, a girl aged six and a 15-year-old boy, but a jury found him guilty.
The court heard that Gatland had also hit the girl with a wooden spoon, made her stand naked in a window, made her stand in stress positions and tipped her out of her bed while she was sleeping on regular occasions.
Evidence of cocaine was discovered in the girl’s system, and significant bruises and burns were found on her back, legs, feet and neck.
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