London, March 16: A Briton, who forced his 11-year-old stepson to wear a straitjacket each night, has been jailed, a media report said Wednesday.
The boy was also made to wear ankle shackles from 8.30 p.m. to 8.30 a.m. as he was a handful, a judge was told.
The Sun reported that the boy’s mother did nothing to prevent the nightly horror that included having to wear a bondage-style leather helmet, which left him unable to see and a collar to stop him moving his head.
The stepdad, who is a former company director, was jailed for three years at Doncaster Crown Court in South Yorks.
The couple admitted child cruelty.
Judge Jacqueline Davies called the torture “appalling and grotesque”.
–IANS