Killer stepmother guilty of plunging girl into scalding hot bath

A sadistic stepmother who killed a five-year-old girl by forcing her into a scalding hot bath 48 years ago is facing years in jail. Janice Nix, 67, meted out horrendous punishments to Andrea Bernard and her then eight-year-old brother Desmond including burning the boy with cigarettes and making him eat catfood. Nix, who would become a major south London drug dealer, once bit Desmond’s arm until she drew blood just for eating chocolate from the fridge. She was 17 when…