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A young mother bit a 16-year-old schoolboy on the face and threatened to mutilate his genitals during a shocking 20 minute ordeal.

Shanna Shakespeare assaulted the boy in Bideford as he pleaded with her not to hurt him.

She stamped on his knees and chest, twisted his penis and testicles, threatened to cut off his foreskin and to rape him with a Kung Fu baton.

A neighbour was so shocked by the violence in the next door garden that she filmed part of the attack out of an upstairs window on her mobile phone. The footage showed Shakespeare circling around the kneeling boy and shouting abuse at him.

The boy suffered cuts to his face, a bite mark to one cheek, and was heard begging 'please don't hurt me' during the attack.

Shakespeare, of Geneva Court, Bideford, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and was jailed for 12 months, suspended for two years and ordered to do 20 days of rehabilitation activities and pay £250 compensation.

Judge Timothy Rose told her: "The background to this assault is a little bit murky, and there was some form of tension and difficulty between the two of you which came to a head.

"This incident was extremely serious and profoundly unpleasant. You were extremely abusive, standing over him and marching around him and I have seen the footage of him cowering on the floor and saying 'please don't hurt me'.

"This was violence against a vulnerable 16-year-old and was a sustained attack, pushing him around and kicking and stamping on him. You bit him on the cheek and cut his ear. It was mere luck there was not more serious injury.

"In effect, you used two weapons, kicking him with your shoes and biting him with your teeth. It was an abusive and nasty attack."

The judge made a restraining order banning any further contact with the boy and told Shakespeare he was suspending the sentence for the sake of her two children and because she suffers from epilepsy and a range of other physical and mental illnesses.

Miss Caroline Bolt, prosecuting, said police were called to the house on May 11 this year when neighbours saw and heard the attack taking place in the garden.

She said she 'threw a bowl of water over him' and 'punched and kicked him'.

"She hit him in the face with her phone and made him sit in the garden where she continued beating him, stamping on his head and kneecaps.

"She grabbed his penis and testicles and twisted them. She threatened to cut off his foreskin and penetrate his anus with a metal martial arts pole. She then bit him on the face."

He needed hospital treatment with steristrips and glue and was prescribed antibiotics because of the bite to his cheek.

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He made a victim impact statement saying the trauma of the attacks affected his GCSE exams and he now doesn't feel safe if he is out on his own.

Miss Hollie Gilbery, defending, said Shakespeare suffers from epilepsy, poor mental health fibromyalgia, a damaged liver, and suspected Crohn's disease. She has two children aged four and eight who would suffer if she went to prison.