A 27-year-old South Carolinian woman, Tenika Draper, will spend decades behind bars for torturing her 8-year-old stepdaughter. Draper forced the boy to eat animal feces and placed her in hypothermia baths, among other methods of abuse.

As reported by Law & Crime, citing court records, Draper was sentenced to 35 years in a state correctional facility on Wednesday, September 17. She had previously pleaded guilty to 20 counts of unlawful neglect of a child and two counts of obstruction of justice.

When Draper is released from prison at 62 years old, she will serve five years of supervised release.

The case began back on September 2, 2022. Authorities were contacted by the Department of Social Services (DSS) after receiving a tip of possible child abuse from an anonymous source.

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