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A furious mum has slammed the four-month jail term handed to an 'evil' carer - who was caught on camera repeatedly assaulting her autistic son.

Carer Pearline Baugh, 62, was behind a string of attacks on Peter Evans - who has autism and epilepsy and is unable to speak.

Last week at Birmingham Crown Court, Baugh - who admitted a charge of ill-treating an individual - was jailed for four months.

The court heard how Baugh's catalogue of abuse had been caught on a home security camera, at a time when she should have been looking after and caring for Peter.

The shocking footage was said to show Baugh - a mum-of-four from Sheldon - slapping Peter around the face, pushing him onto his bed, bending his body in half and dragging him by his pyjamas.

Peter's devoted mum Louise Evans told BirminghamLive how the attacks had devastated her and left a lasting impact on her son.

"I am heartbroken, what I saw on those videos destroyed me. I trusted Pearline Baugh and she became like a member of the family but she was just a good actress. She was evil," Louise said.

Baugh had been taken on as a night carer after Peter began struggling to sleep, and single mum Louise - who also has an 11-year-old son with ADHD, autism and epilepsy - needed extra help.

While Louise, 41, slept upstairs at the family's Bartley Green home, Baugh was downstairs - supposedly taking care of Peter.

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"I'd had a security camera installed in my living room. Not to monitor the carer but to keep an eye on the boys if I needed to go into another room.

"Pearline Baugh had been a carer for Peter for months. She became like a family member and would say how she could 'understand' what I was going through and how she was there to help.

"But one day, last March, I happened to check back over the footage taken in the living room and I was horrified. I saw Pearline dragging Peter by his pyjamas, bending his body in half, pushing him onto the bed and slapping him around the face.

"I was utterly heartbroken. And the more I looked at the videos, the more incidents unfolded. I confronted her a few days later when she arrived for her usual night shift and she denied everything. I told her to get out of my house and I contacted police."

Louise handed over the video footage to police who carried out an investigation, before arresting and charging Baugh.

"I can't bear the thought that this was going on under my roof while I was asleep upstairs. Everyone will tell you, I am totally devoted to my boys and I will never leave them - even with a carer - but the thought that this could go on while I was in the house has been unbearable," Louise added.

"I can't trust anyone anymore. Thankfully, my dad has stepped in to help care for Peter through the night while I sleep. I don't know what i'd do if I didn't have him.

"The woman is evil. I would have preferred her to have done this to me. Instead, she chose Peter - a vulnerable man who could not communicate to tell people what was happening.

"He was such a placid person. Since what happened he has become quiet, withdrawn, anxious and sometimes aggressive. He has got to have counselling, so have I. The whole thing has just been a nightmare.

"Now the court case is over I am pleased she has been jailed but, in my opinion, it should have been for a hell of a lot longer. She assaulted my vulnerable son repeatedly and has only been sent down for four months - where's the justice in that?"

The court heard how Louise had contacted Dolphin Care Services, who provided Baugh as Peter's designated night carer.

Joshua Purser, prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court, said: "He had no verbal communication skills whatsoever. He was prone to fits several times a day.

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"He was a young man who needed a great deal of care.

"There were incidents where the young man was slapped around the face, pushed on to his bed, his body bent in half, his arm twisted and his mouth covered."

Baugh was also captured grabbing the victim around his face. The footage showed at one end of the spectrum heavy handedness and at the other the defendant "inflicting unpleasantness" on him, the court was told.

In passing sentence Judge Heidi Kubic said that the victim was "one of the most vulnerable people in our society.

"I saw the footage which showed your abuse of him over three nights."

Lucinda Wilmott-Lascelles , defending, said Baugh had struggled to accept what she had done and was "shocked, mortified and disgusted with herself."

She said Baugh, a mother of four, had been a carer for 30 years but "broke under stress, pressure and frustration."

The defendant had needed to use a degree of force to control the victim's fits and prevent him from injuring himself, she added.

"At the time of the offence she was struggling with her own personal battles with mental health," she said.