Mother kept boy, 10, locked up in a coal bunker for more than a year with only a mattress and potty

A 10 year-old boy was forced to live in a coal bunker for more than a year, by his own mother.

The youngster slept in the padlocked outhouse every night and was imprisoned for hours at a time during the day if he misbehaved.

While the boy's mother, in her 30s, and her partner, in his 40s, lived in comfort in the main house the boy's room contained a soiled mattress, a dirty sleeping bag and a urine-filled potty.

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