Four Plymouth women were told they posed no risk to society
after they goaded two toddlers into fighting and filmed it.

The seven minutes of video showed a two year old boy wearing a nappy being called a "wimp" for not hitting a girl aged three back after she struck him in the face.

The four women were heard laughing as the toddler brother and sister are urged to keep on fighting.

The boy, aged two, is seen crying after being punched in the face by his three-year-old sister and is told by one of the four women in the room "not to be a wimp or a faggot" and to hit her back.

        
Anyone watching this footage... would have been sickened and saddened
Det Sgt Barry Walters said.

One of the women pleaded guilty to causing or procuring the children to be ill treated in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury.

The other three pleaded guilty to jointly inciting the ill treatment of children.

Judge Francis Gilbert, gave all four women a one-year suspended sentence, saying they posed no risk to the public.

Anyone watching such footage showing grown adults encouraging very young children committing unnatural acts would be sickened and saddened.

To give suspended sentences for a such crime is a scandal. At the same court a local woman received a £200.00 fine for not having road tax or a current M.O.T. !