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A sadistic convicted sex offender who made a young boy eat his own faeces and swallow a bottle of shower gel has been jailed.

Ian Stanley-Gonsalves tortured his victim, regularly beating him over a horrific two year campaign of abuse.

The victim suffered a fractured skull when 41-year-old Stanley-Gonsalves threw him down a hill, the Hull Daily Mail reports.

Ian Stanley-Gonsalves has now been jailed for 12 years after committing an 'appalling catalogue of cruelty'.

He was considered to be too mentally ill to enter pleas to charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, actual bodily harm and child cruelty, when he appeared in court in 2015.

Sentencing was adjourned to try and find the mentally ill defendant a hospital bed.

However, Stanley-Gonsalves has now been ruled mentally fit to enter pleas and he admitted all the offences when he appeared at Hull Crown Court on Friday.

The court heard the abuse started in 2009 when Stanley-Gonsalves grabbed the boy by his genitals, hit him with a baseball bat and punched him in the face.

However, his violence soon turned to sadistic torture as he made the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, eat his own faeces and swallow a bottle of Lynx shower gel.

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In 2010, the abuse carried on with Stanley-Gonsalves continuing to beat his young victim with a baseball bat before pushing him down the hill in an incident which caused the boy to fracture his skull.

Scared about the repercussions, the victim struggled to speak up about the abuse but eventually plucked up the courage to tell a relative when he said to her: "I want to tell you something, but I daren't."

This led to Stanley-Gonsalves' arrest where it became apparent that he had also beaten and abused three other children.

Richard Woolfall, defending, said that his client didn't wish to challenge any aspect of the prosecution case.

"He accepts what he has done and wishes to apologise," Mr Woolfall said.

"These offences are, of course, serious. It doesn't appear that there are any lasting physical injuries to any of these but that clearly can't be said about the psychological impact.

"He knows he is going to be in prison for quite some time."

In 2003, Stanley-Gonsalves was convicted of robbery, false imprisonment, assault causing actual bodily harm and indecent assault of a minor.

He was sentenced to eight years in prison and placed on the sex offenders register.

Judge Simon Jack expressed concern that Stanley-Gonsalves was allowed to get so close to a child when he should have still been in prison or on licence.

Judge Jack said: "He was a thoroughly vulnerable child and you systematically abused him over a long period of time and when I say abuse, I mean physical abuse, cruelty, forcing him to eat his own faeces, swallow shower gel and assaulting him routinely.

"You left with him bruises that he had to lie away for fear of getting further punishment from you.

"It was an appalling catalogue of violence and abuse for the most part committed against vulnerable children."

Stanley-Gonsalves was jailed for 12 years but he will serve a further five years on licence.