SHE looked like any other regular school gate mum - but behind closed doors Kendra Licari was committing unthinkably depraved acts on her 13-year-old girl.

The sick abuse, which sometimes lasted for eight hours a day and went on for a gruelling two years, sent shock waves through America when it was finally exposed by the FBI.

Kendra had been anonymously sending daughter Lauryn and her then-boyfriend Owen McKenny, 13, a barrage of twisted text messages, slating her thin appearance and urging her to commit suicide.

In one vile text to Lauryn the 44-year-old wrote: "Kill yourself now, b**ch. His life would be better if you were dead.”

Shaken, Lauryn sought solace in her mother who told her to take no notice - but little did she know she was the perpetrator behind it all.

'Kill yourself

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