MorphRC Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 [b]Mum tortured son's 13-year-old mate By Christine Caulfield 21aug04[/b] A MOTHER of three kidnapped and tortured her son's 13-year-old schoolmate after wrongly accusing him of having designs on her daughter, a court heard yesterday. Leah Leishman, 38, lured the boy from school and drove him to her Crib Point house where she systematically interrogated, bashed and humiliated the terrified child. The County Court was told Leishman beat the boy with a baseball bat, punched him in the face repeatedly and threatened to circumcise him with a razor during the two-hour ordeal on June 16 last year. She also set her dog on him, wrote the word liar on his head with a Texta and threatened to burn him with a cigarette lighter. Prosecutor Michael Tinney said Leishman had "got it into her head" that her son's good friend, who often stayed the night in the family's home, wanted to rape her 11-year-old daughter. But the boy had no such intention and was now emotionally damaged for life, he said. "Because she was afraid of harm to her 11-year-old, she's forever harmed an innocent 13-year-old," he said. The court heard Leishman recruited her former foster daughter's boyfriend, Jason Sheales, 22, to help her. She then drove to the boy's school and tricked him into getting in her car. After repeated beatings and threats the boy wasbound and gagged, and locked in a shed. Sheales was sentenced earlier this month to six months jail, suspended for two years, after pleading guilty to his role in the abduction and assault. Leishman's husband, who came home hours later, freed the boy and drove him to Frankston railway station to catch a train home. Leishman pleaded guilty to child stealing, false imprisonment, intentionally causing injury, threatening to inflict serious injury and an indecent act with a child under 16. She was released on bail for sentencing by Judge Ross Howie later this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorphRC Posted August 22, 2004 Author Share Posted August 22, 2004 [url="http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,10518261%255E421,00.html"]http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/commo...255E421,00.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsFrozen Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 How awful. It sounds like the Mom has a severe problem with paranoia. That's terrible.. The poor boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 She definitely has issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaidoh Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 wow that was bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorphRC Posted August 23, 2004 Author Share Posted August 23, 2004 [quote name='MrsFrozen' date='Aug 22 2004, 11:52 PM'] How awful. It sounds like the Mom has a severe problem with paranoia. That's terrible.. The poor boy. [/quote] i reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarieCecilia Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 psycho lady Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oik Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 That's terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DancesforLove Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 thats so sick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin D Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Disturbing, if my son was tortured like that... I would've done something that I might have regretted later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorphRC Posted August 23, 2004 Author Share Posted August 23, 2004 I dont think Id be able to control myself, If i saw that woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1337 k4th0l1x0r Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Yikes! That's messed up. What's a texta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorphRC Posted August 23, 2004 Author Share Posted August 23, 2004 texta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Knight Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 This is Obviously Morally Wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar624 Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Thank God that wasn't my son...because I would've definetely been locked up right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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