In 2018, the Offender Database recorded that a 49-year-old woman was jailed for 35 months for subjecting her daughters to an “exceptionally extended and inexcusable history of child abuse.” The offender—of Dundee, Tayside—was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court. It was reported that the investigation was launched after the woman, who began assaulting her eldest daughter on the day she was born, breached years of no-contact by bombarding her now-adult children with “graphic” and threatening messages.
The investigation established that the abuse was both physical and psychological, occurring on a daily basis between 1988 and 2008. Dundee Sheriff Court heard that the mother punched, kicked, and slapped the girls, once pushing one downstairs and another time threatening a daughter with a kitchen knife. The prosecution reported that the woman told one child she would “kill her in her sleep,” causing the terrified girl to try and stay awake through the night for days on end to ensure her mother did not stab her.
Judicial Findings and Investigative Detail
The court reported that after the children were removed to their grandmother’s care, the woman resurfaced in 2016 via email and text. Dundee Sheriff Court heard that these messages contained disparaging comments about the girls’ appearances and graphic descriptions of the mother’s own genitalia and sexual history. The investigation established that the woman even sent a text to her younger daughter stating: “I hope your father rapes you,” leading the Crown to submit that there was a significant sexual element to her campaign of harassment.
Sheriff Alastair Brown presided over the sentencing, jailing the woman for 35 months after she pleaded guilty to two charges of assault to injury and two of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner. For her actions in Dundee, the Sheriff noted that while she was once a young mother with inadequate support, her behaviour evolved into a history of inexcusable cruelty. He stated that while no sentence could truly correlate to the years of trauma inflicted, the custodial term served to mark society’s total disapproval of her conduct.
Status and Statutory Requirements
For the records reported in Tayside, the status of the offender as of April 5, 2026, was as follows:
- Custodial Status: RELEASED (Served 35-month term; sentenced 2018; released circa 2020).
- Licence Status: Completed post-release supervision; subject to standard non-harassment orders.
- DBS Status: Placed on the Barring List (Indefinite ban on working with children).
- Legal Status: CONVICTED (Assault to injury; Threatening and abusive behaviour; 4 counts total).
- Judicial Oversight: Sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court; investigated by Police Scotland.
- Criminal Record: Abuse starting from daughter’s birth; Knife threats; Sleep deprivation of a minor; Sending graphic sexual content to victims.
- Origin: Dundee, Tayside.
Monitoring and Public Protection
The offender is managed as a high-risk individual within the Dundee area following her release from prison. Due to the nature of her conduct—which involved a twenty-year span of physical violence followed by a modern campaign of digital terror—her management is a priority for the Police Scotland Public Protection Unit. Authorities state that her history of bypassing family boundaries to send abusive and sexually explicit material to her victims requires permanent digital safeguards.
As a convicted child abuser, the 49-year-old’s (then) details are permanently logged on the national police database. Authorities state that she remains subject to strict non-harassment orders prohibiting any form of contact with her daughters. Any attempt to locate their addresses in Dundee or elsewhere, any further abusive emails, or any unauthorized proximity to her victims will result in immediate arrest and return to custody to ensure the ongoing safety of the survivors from her demonstrated pattern of “mother from hell” behaviour and psychological warfare.
QUESTION – Given that the offender told her daughter “I hope your father rapes you” during a campaign of digital harassment, do you believe that “Incitement to Violence” should carry an automatic life sentence when directed by a parent toward their own child?
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