article_snippet: An assistant nurse at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, who tortured her adoptive children with a hammer in a spate of sickening attacks, has been sentenced to seven years to life in prison.
article_snippet: The court heard that Ingrid Brewer, 53, of Palmdale, California, became increasingly sadistic, binding her adoptive children's hands with zip-ties and viciously beating her adoptive children with electrical cords and a hammer.
article_snippet: Ingrid Brewer, 53 (left), was found guilty of two counts of torture after her subjected her two small, adopted children to a sequence of horrific attacks with electrical cables, pipes and a hammer.
article_snippet: her also deprived Ingrid Brewer, 53 (left) of food and locked Ingrid Brewer, 53 (left) in Ingrid Brewer, 53 (left) room at her Palmdale home
highlights_snippet: Californian Ingrid Brewer, 53, found guilty of horrific abuse of a seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy .
  