Vaughn Palmer: Shaken B.C. judge repeatedly notes ‘no one did anything’ as children horribly abused

VICTORIA — Their home was “a house of horrors.”

One victim, an 11-year-old boy, was starved and beaten to the point that, in death, “he had the appearance of a child from the Holocaust.”

His sister, eight, survived horrific abuse, including whippings, choking and being forced to consume her own feces, vomit and urine.

All this was captured on hundreds of hours of videotapes, introduced as evidence last month in the sentencing of two foster parents for manslaughter and aggravated assault.

Those were some of the reactions from provincial court judge Peter La Prairie, who reviewed those videos, an experience that left him shaken.