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A 27-year-old babysitter has been jailed after horrifically abusing a young boy in her care, as she burnt him with cigarettes and forced him to eat dog food.

Siann Cawley, from Fleetwood in Lancashire, was sentenced to four years and three months at Preston Crown Court on October 7 for her appalling crimes against another person's child.

At the hearing the court heard how the boy in the babysitter's care had sustained several injuries from her abuse after she put out her cigarettes on his body and made him eat dog food, the Mirror reports .

It was also revealed that Cawley would leave the boy in the house alone for hours while she went out.

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In an earlier hearing the babysitter pleaded guilty to charges of assault occasioning actu

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