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A 'sadistic' teacher who carried out shocking crimes on young girls in residential care has walked free from court.

Patricia Robertson was convicted of a string of offences committed between 1969 and 1984 on girls as young as five.

The 77-year-old would deliver punishments for wetting the bed, force-feed her victims, bang girls’ heads together and drag children by their hair.

Robertson, who was 21 at the time of her first crime, was convicted of cruel and unnatural treatment against 18 victims in October following a trial.

But she avoided a jail term for her crimes and was handed a three-year supervision order on Wednesday (December 3).

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The defendant was also made subject to a restriction orde

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