A South Carolina man has been charged with abusing his girlfriend’s children as part of a “punishment” regime that included rubbing hot sauce in their faces, smothering one repeatedly with a pillow, and even shooting one in the foot with a BB gun.
Police said that the mother of the two children, Sabrina Irene Emerick, 25, was not directly involved in the abuse. However, she has been charged with neglect and child cruelty because she had knowledge of what was happening to her 5-year-old and 7-year-old sons.
