Girl sobbed: ‘The bath is too hot mummy’ before she was forced into bath

A five-year-old girl sobbed: ‘The bath is too hot mummy,’ before she was forced into a tub of scalding water that killed her, a court heard. Janice Nix, now 67, allegedly meted out cruel punishments to daughter Andrea Bernard and then eight-year-old brother Desmond Bernard that went ‘beyond chastisement even by contemporary standards.’ Nix was 17 when she allegedly forced five-year-old Andrea into bath at their home in Thornton Heath, south London, on 6 June 1978. Andrea died in a…