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They called her their “slave,” and treated her worse than an animal.

A homeless couple sentenced Friday to lengthy penitentiary terms bludgeoned their captive’s face with a shovel, shot her with a BB gun and butt out cigarettes on her skin. They routinely kicked and punched her to the point her rib cage was literally floating in her chest.

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She was forced her to perform household tasks despite her broken bones. If she moaned, they would beat her some more.

On May 22, 2016 when police were called to the tent on Laing Street where the trio had been living, the battered woman was clad only in underwear. Her abusers had ripped off her clothing and burned it as punishment for losing bladder control after a beating.

For Jonathan Riley, 26, and Kaiyla Barr Schram, 28, beating a vulnerable 39-year-old woman was “almost a sport,” Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas said Friday. Other street people had witnessed Riley treating his German Shepherd Harley the same way. They rescued the dog and took it to the humane society. The woman, however, didn’t get the same consideration.