Mormon women in court over child torture charges.

Two Mormon women, Deidre Carrington and Maria Keable, have appeared in court charged with the torture of children in their care. The pair forced the children to eat red-hot chillies, punched and kicked them, gagged them, and whipped them with nettles, in order to instill discipline in them. The children, some as young as two years old, were awoken at 5am each morning to say prayers and read scripture. After this, they would be forced to do hours of housework, facing physical abuse as punishment if this was not done to a satisfactory standard. Ms Carrington responded by saying that 'she was a member of the church and had strict principles to teach the children how to work and be obedient.'