A COUPLE who hit a two-year-old boy so hard he was left with brain injuries after he would not eat his dinner have avoided prison.
The toddler was attacked by Alix Bluck, 22, who along with then partner James Bluck, 35, was supposedly caring for the child.
A shocked visitor said the child looked like a "Romanian orphan" as he lay on a mattress in a bare room.
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