Mom And Stepfather Were Arrested For Doing This Cruel Thing To Their Autistic Son For Seven Months!

24-year-old Matthew Langley was skin and bones and only a few days away from death when he was rescued in their home in Sheffield.

According to the reports, his mom and step-father were imprisoned for locking him in the attic for seven months. What made it even worse is that they starved hom.

43-year-old Lorna Hewitt and her husband Craig who’s 42 years of age, were arrested after they were found guilty of falsely imprisoning Matthew in the attic.

When Matthew was rescued, he was extremely dehydrated and only weight six stones. The room where he was locked in was covered both in vomit and feces.

Judge Michael Slater described the mother’s actions towards the autistic son as ‘a grave abuse of trust between a mother and her son’ during the sentencing that was held at the Sheffield Crown Court.

The judge also added, “You were the primary carer for Matthew with all his difficulties and challenges.

“It makes it all the more inexplicable to me that for those seven months you failed to provide him with the support and provision of food and drink that he craved and needed.”

The couple who were arrested denied that they have locked Matthew in their home for seven months. However, after the trial, they were both found guilty.

In addition to that, the couple were also guuilty of causing a vulnerable adult to suffer serious phsyical harm.

The moment he was rescued, Matthew was rushed to the hospital ICU in what they had described as a pitiable state. Furthermore, abrasions on his body indicated that he had been moving around on all corners of the attic.

Due to being locked and imprisoned in thhe attic for seven months, Matthew had suffered a damage to a kidney due too the high sodium levels related to severe dehydration.

Nicholas Campbell said, “His sodium levels were dangerously high. They measured 180.

“hey were so high they could shut down his brain and kill him. Anything above 145, there is a real chance of death.

“The Home Office pathologist examined the injuries and said the abrasions and bruises were consistent in his view with Matthew having been crawling on all fours over objects in his path.”

Aside from feces and vomit, the police also found noted that there were flies and foul smell in the room whre Matthew was found.

Before Matthew was locked in the attic, he weighed 8.5 stones. However, after the tragic imprisonment, his weight dropped into six stones.

The good news is Mr. Campbel said that Matthew has made a good physical recovery all thanks to the medical staffs who had taken care of him and when he was discharged from the hospital he already weighed 8.6 stones.

Meanwhile, Miss Tana Adkin saidd that Mr. Craig Hewitt showed a significant change when he was sentenced in the court.

She said, “He is devastated about what happened to Mathew. He is not a deliberately cruel man in the sense that the courts see and have seen in the past.

“He is not someone that would punish Matthew for his autism.”

However, the judge refuse to believe the characterisations.

“You were complicit equally with wife Lorna Hewitt in care effectively being switched off to any degree for Matthew as he was locked in his room and starved of food.”

“That did not occur by negligence, it did not occur by recklessness. It was a plan between the pair of you.

“I’m quite satisfied that nothing in that household occurred without either you knowing about it or approving of it.”

Judge then address Lorna Hewitt and said, “It is argued on your behalf that you were particularly vulnerable and suggestible at the time.”

“I had the benefit of observing you give evidence in the trial over the course of several days.

“It did not seem to me that you were not capable of standing up for yourself or that you were particularly suggestible. You were both an articulate, temperate and thoughtful witness.”

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