Revealed for the first time in the damning words of the Family Court judge, the litany of violence, drugs and selfishness that show in horrifying detail why Constance Marten and Mark Gordon... should NEVER have been parents
'There is literally nothing I would not do for my children,' she said, adding: 'Mark and I love our kids more than anything in the world.'
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