Sadistic stepmother gets 12 years for scalding her daughter to death

An evil stepmother who killed her five-year-old daughter by forcing her into a scalding hot bath almost half a century ago has been jaled for 12 years. 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…