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KILLER FORCED BOY TO HAVE SEX WITH HIS OWN MUM

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A TWISTED husband made his wife have sex with her 13-yearold son while he watched.

Jerry Gilligan, 72, was convicted of torturing and kidnapping his spouse and stepson after jurors heard how he also sexually abused the boy.

The jurors watched a recording of the mother and son having sex with each other and being forced to perform sex acts on Gilligan.

Gilligan was found guilty of 10 of the 18 charges he faced over the September 2016 incident.

It began when his wife, then 39, found him molesting the boy in a backyard shed.

Gilligan bound the woman with rope, chains and duct tape, before battering both with a Taser, knife and wooden rod.

Gilligan had previously killed his stepdad Walter Bopp in Tucson,

SICKO: Gilligan sexually abused and tortured wife and stepson

Arizona, in 1980 and tortured his wife and son within months of being released from jail for that murder.

He also shaved all his victims’ hair off and poured battery acid into his wife’s eyes.

His victims were taken to hospital three days after their ordeal began, with the woman raising the alarm and telling police what had happened to her.

A defence lawyer tried to paint Gilligan’s wife as a “gold digger” who could not be trusted.

But Gilligan, of Kingman, Arizona, was convicted of kidnapping, torture and sexual contact with a minor.

Gilligan, who is wheelchair-bound due to ill-health, will be sentenced at Mohave County Superior Court on December 5.

Judge Billy Sipe has warned that he is likely to be jailed for life.

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