Mr. Pepe was blinded in one eye and rendered nearly unable to speak.

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The court heard Mackrell's victims had been traumatised by their ordeal with one boy harming himself and writing suicide notes and the girl unable to speak about it.

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One of the students is 5-year-old Taylor Alford, who started kindergarten last fall unable to speak.

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