He Tortured His Mother For 8 Hours Because He Asked For A Fork And She Told Him He Should Get It | the Chronicle

In March of last year, the son of Helene smith was arrested for locking his mother in the kitchen of his home for eight long hours, during which the hit, slapped and strangled while filmed his attack. Over a year later, and showing severe symptoms of PTSD, Helen decided to share her story with raise awareness of domestic violence.

“Unfortunately, people think that domestic violence only happens in relationships and marriages. But it can also happen in the hands of children“, he said The sun in your landfill.

The 2020 episode was not the first case of mother-to-child violence. According to Helen, her son showed a volatile temper from the youngest age. During his constant temper tantrums, the boy he bit her, spat and threw things at her.

“He kept thinking that he would get over it with age. But as I get older I was always angry“said Hélène.”It got so bad that when I was three I sent him to anger management class”. Despite corrective education, Sean Wilson grew up screaming and insulting his mother.

The violence peaked when the young man was 17. During his final years in high school, Sean became a couple and once invited his girlfriend over for the weekend at his house. During their stay, a fight broke out and Hélène approached with the intention of intervening.

“I heard them arguing in the living room“The mother remembered. “I rushed inside and stood between them, tried to put on some cold clothes and end the discussion. Suddenly Sean threw me on the coffee table And banging my head in the corner I passed out. When I returned, the police were stop Sean and I felt a sudden pain in my hand. Blood was flowing”.

When he regained consciousness, a police officer informed him that her son stabbed her with a kitchen knife. Hélène was in shock: “After all these years I didn’t expect it to hurt me. I couldn’t believe it”.

Sean pleaded guilty of the domestic violence charge, and since 2018 he has been jailed at Woolwich Crown Court. But the nightmare would not end yet.

“At first I was angry, but after his incarceration I felt very guilty»Helene admitted. “I kept thinking about how my son was in prison because of me. Despite what I had done still loved him”. This is why, when her son wrote to her from prison, the Englishwoman quickly put the episode behind her: “He promised me he would change. i really believed it”.

In March 2020, Sean was paroled. Justice failed to find him accommodation in time, Helen offered to host her son herself. “When Sean got home he seemed like a different person», He said. “She was doing her best and it was good that she was there”.

But Sean’s good behavior only lasted a week. One night, while the two of them were sharing a fast food restaurant, her son asked Helen to hand him a fork. “It was near the kitchen, so I asked him why he couldn’t get it himself. He growled, I went to the kitchen to get him one“The mother remembered.

“But when I opened the drawer Sean hit me on the head and I fell to the ground. Horrified, I asked him what he was doing. He started slapping me and punching me on the side of the head. Be then took two kitchen knives and screamed it was my fault he went to jail.“

The nightmare lasted eight hours. Between blow and insult, Hélène feared for her life: “At one point I begged for the bathroom but he refused. So I peed. Finally, Sean dragged me into the living room, put a wrench on my head and started to strangle me. I thought I was going to die. Too all filmed on your phone“.

At five in the morning the next day, Sean stopped and fell asleep in his mother’s room. Seeing your luck Helen looked for a way to escape. “After desperately looking, I finally found the key to the back door, next to the sofa. I limped into the garden and found my cell phone in the bushes. Distraught I called the police”.

Sean was arrested again while paramedics treated Helen’s injuries: “My eyes were black and my body was severely beaten. I was in agony. But what hurt me the most is that my own son did this to me”.

In December 2020, Wilson, 23, pleaded guilty to violence and a false jail charge at Woolwich Crown Court. He was sentenced to eight years. “This time, I didn’t feel guilty and it didn’t seem to be enough. I will never forgive my son for this. It’s a monster», He concluded.

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