A woman who kept a toddler in a cage claims she had to flee her home after her partner in crime turned on her
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He said: "There is an individual outside. She is the victim of him and is fleeing domestic violence. This was a pattern over several months. She would prefer this is not said in the presence of this individual." Boyle was spared jail in 2021 for neglecting a four-year-old so badly doctors feared he had blood cancer or a blood clotting disorder.
A two-year-old boy was then found being kept in a home-made cage – using a cot with the base removed and secured to the top – at the home Boyle shared with Johnstone, in Newmilns, Ayrshire.
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