Sentenced: Couple Accused Of Abusing 5 Children For 11 Years; Forced Boy To Eat Own Excrement

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A Falkirk couple have gone on trial accused of subjecting five children in their care to 11 years of abuse.

Cameron Cole, 48, and Phyllis Arthur, 36, are said to have compelled the children, whose ages ranged from birth to 14, to live in "squalid" conditions at a house in Grahamston - where there was also a "deceased family pet" stored in the freezer.

It is alleged one of the children was forced to eat their own excrement while another was repeatedly assaulted and threatened with prison.

The offences are said to have been committed between February 2011 and February 2022.

One boy was said to have been maltreated from the age of four until he was 14, including being made to eat excrement, being locked in a bedroom without access to a toilet, and suffering physical assault that caused injuries.

A girl, said to have been neglected from birth to 11, was threatened with prison and injured by being punched, pulled and slapped, among several physical assaults.

Three of the youngest children are said to have been neglected from the age of one or birth and compelled to spend "excessive" periods in their cots with heavily saturated nappies.

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Couple accused of abusing five children for 11 years

Cameron Cole and Phyllis Arthur are said to have forced the children to live in "squalid" conditions at a house in Grahamston.

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In April 2025, Phyllis Arthur and Cameron Cole were sentenced to community-based punishments rather than jail time for the assault of two children between 2011 and 2022.

Phyllis Arthur (36): Sentenced to 300 hours of unpaid work and placed under social work supervision for two years. She was found guilty of assaulting a boy, which included presenting a knife at him.

Cameron Cole (48): Sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work. He was found guilty of striking the boy on the head and throwing a girl against a vacuum cleaner.

The couple originally faced much more severe charges, including wilful neglect involving allegations that they forced five children to live in "squalid" conditions with a dead pet in a freezer. However, the prosecution withdrew these neglect charges during the trial because they lacked "foundation or admissible evidence". The presiding sheriff, Wyllie Robertson, expressed concern that such unsubstantiated allegations had been included in the original indictment.

Couple found guilty of assaulting boy and girl

They were found guilty by a jury of assaulting, threatening and striking the youngsters.

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[runninfawn]

that sentence added insults to injuries to those poor kids grrrrrrrrrrrrrr i sure hope those kids weren't left with those people but i won't bet on it as i feel that they were grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr