TWO "devil" brothers aged ten and 12 pleaded guilty today to luring two young boys to a ravine before torturing, burning and beating them.
They forced the victims — a nine-year-old boy and his eleven-year-old uncle — into sex acts with each other, burned the younger one on the EYELIDS with cigarettes and dropped a SINK on the head of the older boy who was left fighting for his life.
They gloated as the boys begged for mercy, telling them: "We can't leave you....you're not dead yet."
Today they pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent at Sheffield Crown Court.
They also admitted two counts of intentionally causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
They cannot be named for legal reasons.
Beaten
The brothers — who were in care and living with foster parents in Edlington, Doncaster — had told the victims they knew where they could see a giant toad and foxes.
But they turned on the boys after leading them away and started beating them with sticks and bricks.
The tormentors were drinking cans of Carlsberg as they carried out the attack trying to force the boys into sex acts with each other and urinating in their mouths.
The eleven-year-old boy — who was stripped half naked — was beaten so badly that at one stage he begged the brothers to "Leave me, I can't see. Leave me to die".
The younger one was burned with a cigarette on his eyelids and ear, and a sharp stick was rammed into his arm.
Burning cigarettes were also pushed into the gaping wound on which he eventually needed plastic surgery.
He was also forced to eat nettles and had his genitals and face stamped on.
He was then ordered to go away and "kill himself". He was so frightened he pretended to ram a stick down his own throat to give the impression he was harming himself.
The ordeal only ended when the nine-year-old managed to get away and was later found covered in blood wandering in a daze.
His uncle was discovered 90 minutes later barely conscious with severe head injuries on the edge of a stream.