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"The victims first met their attackers as they played football in a park.
The boys were lured away by the brothers, who promised they would show them a toad they had found, but instead they were subjected to a horrific assault.
One of the boys had a sink dropped on his head, the pair had bricks thrown at them and they were repeatedly stamped on.
The nine-year-old managed to stagger to a nearby house to raise the alarm, covered in blood from wounds to his head and arm.
The 11-year-old boy was later discovered unconscious in the nearby wood.
Jean Wright said her 40-year-old son, who then found the badly beaten 11-year-old, was left so traumatised he could no longer walk past the scene of the attacks.
The brothers have each pleaded guilty to robbing one of the boys of a mobile phone and the other of cash.
They also admitted two counts of intentionally causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
The brothers were later charged with attempted grievous bodily harm with intent and making a threat to kill in connection with a separate attack on another 11-year-old boy in Doncaster a week earlier.
The court heard the brothers picked a "discreet" location for the scene of their first attack on the other boy, in trees, by a stream.
But they were interrupted by a passer-by, and a week later chose a "more isolated" place for the attack on the two boys.
The nine-year-old and 11-year-old were led to a large mound of timber, described as a "den", which was hidden from public view, where some of their injuries were inflicted.
The brothers then moved their victims to a second site, at the foot of a 15ft ravine. It was here that a broken sink was used to inflict the more serious head injuries on the 11-year-old"
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"A relative of the boys who carried out the Edlington attacks has told how their mother would lace their food with cannabis to get them to go to sleep.
She recalled how the brothers grew up in a chaotic household watching horror movies from a young age.
The boys would often be up all night and had even set fire to their own wardrobes in their bedrooms, she said.
From the age of about six or seven they used to watch horror movies, Chucky films, the sort that grown-ups daren't watch.
"She [their mother] just sat in the house doing nothing really, she wasn't really bothered.
"The father used to do a lot more for the children than she did.
"He was a tough dad, maybe a little too tough and strict and they rebelled against him.
"If he smacked the boys for being naughty she would just tell them to tell him to F off, it doesn't matter.
"She used to put cannabis in the tea so they could have an early night and she could have a quiet night in.
"My friend said she had walked into the house one day and was totally disgusted because she had caught her putting cannabis on a chocolate cake."
A former police officer described the brothers as habitual troublemakers who were "a cancer" in the local community.
He first came across the boys when he organised a tree planting scheme at Sandall Park in Doncaster in 2006.
"There was a lot of work put in by the volunteers there, but within 20 minutes of leaving the site the entire area was trashed.
"Five hundred pounds worth of plants got pulled up and thrown in the lake. One particular member of that family was responsible.
"That person was identified to me by someone who saw them trashing the plants.
"On one occasion we had it reported to us that at least one member of that family was seen to pick up ducklings in the park and kill them by throwing them against trees."