A woman has been cleared of abusing two girls at her home.
Jean Mills, 68, was alleged to have wilfully illtreated the girls in her care between 2001 and 2017 at properties in Glasgow's Southside.
Mills faced accusations which included making them stand for hours as a form of punishment and withholding food from them.
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One of the girls told a jury at Glasgow Sheriff Court that Mills poured liquid in her mouth and brushed it with a kitchen cleaning utensil after she swore at her.
Both girls, now aged 26 and 19, also said they were slapped on the head and body.
Mills, of the city's Mount Florida, denied the two charges at a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
She told a jury that the allegations have stopped her spending one on one time with the child of her co-accused daughter 37-year-old Gayle McGregor.
She was separately charged with assaulting the two girls between 2001 and 2017.
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McGregor, a lecturer of paediatric optometry at Glasgow Caledonian University, faced accusations of slapping the girls on the head and body.
One of the girls claimed that McGregor also hit her on the body with an iPad which then broke.
McGregor, of the city's Kings Park, also pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The jury returned a not guilty verdict on all eight charges against the pair who were acquitted.
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