(TW). Gloucestershire woman guilty of keeping woman as slave

[Lalgarh]

Trigger Warning.

Mum of ten Amanda Wixon found guilty after forcing a teenage girl to become her "house slave" for 25 years.

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/mum-ten-who-kept-woman-10769518

This is local to me. Shocking. I gather the lady is on bail.

Absolutely shocking and hard to understand how she could have got away with it for so long.

I was interested (and pleased) to see that it was one of her children who had reported her.

Totally shocking.

I'd heard it was her son who reported her too but the latest article in the local press says "In March 2021 she used a secret phone that she had been given and called someone she knew for help."

I was really surprised how briefly this was mentioned on the BBC News last night. Just a very, very short mention, then on to some 'celebrity news'.

The Midlands news went into it a little more.

They said the victim texted one of the daughters from an old phone she'd given her.
They also mentioned the victim's family knew she had moved in with this woman 25 years ago as a 16 year old, but then never mentioned her family again.

Such a shocking story, I am very surprised it hasn't been covered more widely.

Bail is the shocking part tbh

Yes. The news reported the girl held captive was also SEND, so you'd think social services would at least be aware of her before she turned 18?

No, Social Care aren't aware of every person with Learning Difficulties. I wouldn't have expected that.

However, I would have expected someone from her family to have had concerns.
Of course, the fact her family 'gave' (?) / 'sent' (?) / 'allowed her'(?) to go and live with another family at 16 does make me wonder if her parents had difficulties themselves as well, as can often be the case.