Cannibal cult mother who skinned son and made him eat his own flesh gets 9 years in jail



A cannibal cult mother who tortured her son in a locked cellar while relatives skinned him and forced him to eat his own flesh has been jailed for nine years.



Klara Mauerova, 31 - a member of a sinister religious cult and her sister Katerina led the sickening torture of her eight-year-old son Ondrej and his ten year-old brother Jakub.



A court in Brno in Czech Republic heard how relatives partially skinned Ondrej and forced him to eat his own flesh.

Klara Mauerova, right, has been jailed for nine years for abusing her sons



The judge also jailed Katerina, 35, for ten years for her role in the sickening abuse.



The two boys had told judges how their mother and relatives had stubbed cigarettes out on their bare skin, whipped them with belts, and tried to drown them. They were also sexually abused and forced to cut themselves with knives.



The terrified youngsters said they were kept in cages or handcuffed to tables and made to stand in their own urine for days.

Klara Mauerova, far left, and fellow torturer Barbara Skrlova are pictured with Klara's sons Jakub, 10, foreground, and Ondrej, 8



The sick sisters - both members of a weird religious cult - refused to reveal why they tortured the brothers.



But state prosecutor Zuzana Zamoravcova said: 'Their aim was to make the boys blindly serve their religious goals.'

Judge Pavel Goth said as he sentenced the women: 'Their aim was to create a person with a completely broken will. Ondrej and Jakub were repeatedly psychologically and physically tyrannised and held in locked rooms.'

Mauerova's sister Katerina was jailed for ten years for her part in the torture



Another defendant, 34-year-old Barbora Skrlova, was also jailed for five years for her part in the torture. Three others who took part in the abuse were also given jail terms.

Hana Basova, 28, and Jan Skrla, 25, were sentenced to seven years each while another man, Jan Turek, was jailed for five years.



Skrlova had posed as an innocent 13-year-old girl when police arrived to free the boys. She later ran away to Norway but was traced earlier this year by Czech police who brought her back to face trial.

Barbara Skrlova, seen here in a beanie hat, is pictured after her arrest in Norway. She posed as a 13-year-old girl to escape capture

Mauerova at first admitted abusing her children but she said she had been manipulated by her sister Katerina and Skrlova.



The sick abuse was discovered when a neighbour installed a TV baby monitor to keep watch on his new daughter.



But it picked up the signal from an identical monitor next door showing one of the victims beaten, naked and chained in a cellar.



Mauerova had installed it so she could gloat over her victims' suffering from the comfort of her kitchen.



The defendants are expected to launch an appeal.

