WELLFORD, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office reports a Wellford woman pleaded guilty to repeatedly abusing a child on Wednesday.

Officials said 27-year-old Tenika Draper and others subjected an 8-year-old to physical, emotional, and psychological abuse. This abuse included making them eat animal feces, making them stand in a garbage can for hours with trash thrown on them, locking them in a closet, making them wear a diaper, restricting them from using a bathroom, repeatedly hitting them with a cutting board, yelling at them, force-feeding them laxatives and beating them while using makeup and temporary tattoos to disguise the bruises.

Draper pleaded guilty to 20 counts of unlawful neglect of a child and two counts of obstruction of justice. A circuit court judg

See Full Page