Mandy Wixon sentenced to 13 years

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I’m surprised that this woman only got 13 years for subjecting a poor girl to 25 years in captivity in a stinking hellhole inside the perpetrator’s home. She was made to work as a slave, was denied medical treatment and made to wash in secret. There are other gruesome details too. It’s just awful.

Is that the woman that was addicted to scratch cards? I read part of something but the rest was behind a paywall

Ideally she would have got as long as she held the poor woman in slavery conditions for, but that was not going to be within the guidelines for the offence. It's a relatively long sentence, considering.

It's on the BBC news website.

It's absolutely dreadful. What cruelty.
She also apparently had/has ten kids, and they all lived in a hovel. I wonder what's happened to them?

I suppose it’s the guidelines but I am just surprised the sentence isn’t longer. The victim has lost so much of her own life because of this monster.

I hope the victim is being well looked after. The world changed so much while she was enslaved.

I agree, she should have got jail time for the amount of time she kept that poor woman as a slave and then some.

I hope she rots in hell. Yes she should have got 25yrs and done every single minute. I hope the victim lives a long and happy life.

That poor, poor woman. How do you ever get over something like that?

Thank goodness the son raised concerns about her welfare.

This is so distressing, that poor poor woman. I don’t understand how a 16 year old girl with learning difficulties could just drop off everyone’s radar but could also have benefits paid in her name to another person’s bank account for over 20 years and not once was that flagged or reviewed. It’s disgusting how easily people can fall through the cracks. That horrific stain of a person should be made to scrub floors on her hands and knees for the next 25 years and see how she likes it.

What an evil woman. Her kids knew, finally reported it yes but seriously how do you watch that play out and not do something.

Mandy Wixon is mid 50s so presumably most if not all of her kids are now adults.

I want to say how much I admire the foster family who have taken care of the victim since she was rescued 5 years ago. It should not have taken nearly so long to get it to trial. I really hope that the poor woman is now able to make the most of her life while Wixon rots in prison. I hope she goes to a prison with some real hard cases and gets to know how it feels to be at the bottom of the pecking order.

Although she is now mid 40s, my understanding is that she has been living with a foster family since she was rescued 5 years ago. She is now attending college and learning life skills. Apparently because Wixon was on bail until today the poor woman saw her in a supermarket recently and really get distressed. At least for the next 8 or so years the victim won't gave to worry about that happening again. (Judge said Wixon will serve 2/3 of her sentence in prison).

This story is sickening. Thank goodness the victim was finally rescued when her own son reported his mother.
What about the victims family who gave their daughter away like trash to that vile woman? There has been nothing reported about them. Isn't it a crime to abandon a vulnerable 16 year old?

What I don't understand is how Wixon was able to commit Benefit fraud and claim money on the victim's behalf and there was no review in 25 years. There is falling between the cracks of society and then there is this when no sight of a person for years but thr benefits kept being paid.

That's awful, the victim should never have been able to see her like that.

She’ll be out in half that 😧

Not real justice for the poor woman she kept captive. She was also allowed out on bail and her victim was terrified when she saw her in their local shop. Why was she allowed bail, it was always going to be a custodial sentence.

The judge did specify that she was to serve 2/3 of the sentence but I suppose overcrowding might get her out on a tag a bit sooner than that. I wish the judge had the power to order that she cannot return to live in Tewkesbury on her release to reduce the risk of her victim ever gaving to see her again.

Good on the son for discovering this but how could the alarm not be raised much earlier. It’s possible the kids were shit scared of their mother and didn’t dare question her.

It is actually a decent sentence, given the charges and the circumstances.

It's quite a complex and sad case all around. Severe levels of dysfunction plus addictions plus learning difficulties plus poverty... Social services should have been all over this entire family's situation decades ago.

The woman convicted had ten children, seven with an alcoholic and three with a man with learning difficulties. Most of those 10 children have their own additional needs.

The maximum is 16 years. You can get a life sentence but there would need to be no mitigation, so assume there must have been some. But horrific yes. Sentencing often doesn’t fit the crime sadly.

Wow so perhaps having so many DC was to get their money for scratch cards?

How on earth where they on no one's radar ?

How did the children present at school and it seems several have needs , one woman like that with 10 DC how did they present ??
Didn't any teaches or docs raise any alarms

Well yes, this was an extremely dysfunctional family.

It's less a straightforward case of "evil woman keeps vulnerable slave for 25 years" but rather "addicts and vulnerable abusive individuals living in highly dysfunctional situations exploit and abuse another vulnerable individual".

To try to put it in a neutral way, this isn't a "normal" group of people with normal mental capacity (it was noted in court that the woman convicted was of low intelligence, for example) and normal expectations of life. I mean no offence by the use of "normal" - I'm trying to get across that applying our point of view and standards to it is never going to gel.

The slavery charges are probably correct in order to secure a maximum conviction, and it's certainly headline grabbing, but I think it has certain implications which don't necessarily line up with the reality. In my opinion, I would summarise this more as extreme coercive control and domestic abuse within an environment that was already sub-par.

I hope Wixon rots in prison. This whole case, and the lenient sentence in particular, has really upset me. I hate to see people with learning disabilities being abused and this case is horrific.

I wish the survivor a peaceful and happy future filled with love.