Monster Selica Wright, 34, was jailed for more than 10 years after she forced the boy to eat her soiled toilet paper, and then stamped on his face and body when he started throwing up at her home in Auckland, New Zealand
A woman has been jailed for her horrific campaign of torturous abuse against a teenage boy during which she even forced him to eat dog faeces.
Among the most horrific allegations levied against Selica Romana Wright, 34, were that she stabbed the boy with a chef’s knife and screwdriver and poured boiling water on him.
Even after her sentencing, she appeared unrepentant after Auckland prosecutors intercepted her post in prison. One letter read: “Haha. Do it all again in a heartbeat. No regrets for me, only that I didn’t do it properly. LOL.” Wright, a resident of Glen Eden, Auckland, in New Zealand, was seized in October 2023 after the young boy escaped her clutches. When he turned up at a neighbour’s home, begging for help, he had a broken spine and countless other injuries.
Court documents detail the horrific testimony of abuse. In the week before her arrest, she had become obsessed with human waste, and decided to carry out an assault that she had threatened him with in the past. While standing over him, she forced him to eat dog faeces, threatening to hit him with a hammer if he refused. The vile abuser wouldn’t allow the boy to drink water afterwards. He eventually made his way to a relative’s house where he could wash his mouth out, but when Wright found out, she beat him with the hammer anyway.
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In the last month before she was stopped, she had told the boy he should hang himself, and even threatened to do it herself.
On October 22, 2023, just before the boy made his escape, Wright had ordered him to take the dog for a run. But because his body was so battered by the abuse, he took the dog for a walk instead. Upon realising he’d disobeyed her, she retrieved the hammer and bludgeoned him in the shoulders and chest until he collapsed, unable to breathe. She then took her own soiled toilet paper and made him eat him. When he started to vomit she stamped on his face, stomach and legs.
The abuse reportedly started in the January of that year. Wright would become enraged over “insignificant” slights, or problems in her own life, and slap or kick the teen. However, over the course of the 10 months, the severity increased and she started to attack him with weapons. Then in August 2023, there was a significant increase in the level of violence.
At this point, Wright found a favourite instrument to dole out the beatings. The metal vacuum cleaner pipe was used to hit him around the body and head, and she used such force that it was damaged beyond repair. She then went out and bought a replacement so she could continue using it. She also purchased a hammer for home repairs, but ended up using it against the boy at least five times, reported the NZ Herald.
“[He] was struck about the head, body, legs, knees, feet, back, arms and his hands,” court documents state. “[He] sustained multiple deep circular bruises from being struck with the hammerhead. [His] hands were bruised and cut from hammer blows. One of his fingers was broken. His feet were bruised and swollen from being hit repeatedly with the hammer.”
Defence counsel had tried to prevent the court using the term “torture”, though the judge felt it was “entirely appropriate”.
“In my view, that term is entirely appropriate,” Judge Lummis concluded. She added that the “extreme violence and sadistic nature” of the abuse was a rarity in the country’s courts.
“It is clear [the victim] would like you to be locked up as long as possible.”
Judge Lummis jailed the 34-year-old for 10-and-a-half years.