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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Evans

Woman who kept teenage girl as ‘house slave’ for 25 years and beat her with a broom handle jailed

A woman who forced a teenage girl to work as a “house slave” and live in squalor while subjected to 25 years of abuse has been jailed.

The victim, who is now in her mid-40s, moved into the overcrowded home of Amanda Wixon, now 56, and her 10 children in 1995 and was made to remain there until she was rescued in 2021.

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