If you haven’t heard of the ‘Springs Monster’ consider yourself fortunate, because the alleged levels of abuse suffered by the wife and children at the hands of the barbarian in question are almost beyond belief.

More details emerged yesterday in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, the wife of the Monster laying bare the extent of her husband’s horrid deeds.

The 38-year-old woman and her husband, have pleaded not guilty to a range of charges. According to News24, those include “42 charges including rape, child and sexual abuse, and drug dealing and possession”.

The couple cannot be named to protect the identity of their children, some of whom are still minors.

More below from the Citizen – ready yourself:

The woman testified in gruesome detail about the torture especially her eldest son and sometimes her 16-year-old daughter had to endure at her husband’s hands.

She also testified about an incident when her husband had dragged their three-year-old daughter up a flight of stairs before throwing the screaming little girl from the door onto a bed.

She said her husband sometimes made her and their five children stand shivering in their underwear in a “glass” room when he became angry.

She said the assaults on her eldest son had started when he was five years old and testified in horrifying detail about how the young boy was tortured.

She and her daughter were once forced to hold her son (then 10) by the feet and dunk his head into a bucket of water while her husband looked on.

The boy was once tied to two pillars in their lounge and made to hang there for a whole night while her husband poured water over him and sprayed him with pepper spray.

Her husband also bludgeoned her son on the head with a knob kerrie, tried to drown him in the bath, handcuffed him to the leg of a pool table, threw a television set at him and at times handcuffed the boy, stuffed him into a cupboard and burnt him with a blow torch.

The boy was once left handcuffed to a kitchen cupboard while his parents went to Durban for a weekend.

There is no fate cruel enough for a man like this, the case coming to light when one of the sons escaped and ran to the neighbours for help back in May of 2014.

It’s worth noting that the woman still exchanged love letters and daily phone calls with the Monster after his arrest, although they have since divorced.

The trial continues.

[sources:citizen&news24]