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I am completely baffled. How can a family be so cruel?

Rachel’s battered body was found face down in mud near a lake just 17 months after her wedding.

She had suffered more than 60 injuries at their hands in the weeks before she died.

When she was found, 11 of her ribs were fractured and her mouth was so badly injured that her bottom lip had become detached from her skull.

She had also suffered cigarette burns, scalds and heavy bruising as a result of countless attacks with a baseball bat and a piece of wood.

She eventually died of thrombosis caused by a blood clot in her brain that had been left untreated for weeks. It had been brought on by septicaemia, dehydration and repeated assault.

Reading this news is bad enough for me. I really can’t imagine a 20-year old woman going through all this.

Sorry to spoil the jolly Christmas mood, but I hope you all will appreciate your family more. You’re much much more fortunate than some people out there.

Link - BBC News, “‘Family from hell’ get life terms”