Child C: Surviving a Foster Mother's Reign of Terror - Couverture rigide

Spry, Christopher

 
9781847371478: Child C: Surviving a Foster Mother's Reign of Terror
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1847371477 ISBN 13 : 9781847371478
Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

In April 2007, 62-year-old Eunice Spry was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the systematic wounding, cruelty and assault of the vulnerable children whose welfare had been entrusted to her. Her Gloucestershire home should have been a refuge. Instead it became a prison where, over the course of 20 years, her charges were routinely abused and tortured. To the outside world, Jehovah's Witness Spry presented herself as a pillar of the community. Behind closed doors she was a sadistic tyrant who beat the children with metal bars, forced wooden sticks down their throats and made them eat lard, bleach, vomit and faeces. The details of the trial horrified the nation, and attracted considerable press attention. Now, for the first time, one of the victims - known in the case as 'Child C' and now 19 years old - tells the full, shocking story of what went on in Eunice Spry's house of evil. Child C is a gripping, heartbreaking story of enforced isolation, psychological and physical abuse and a childhood denied. Despite all he has been through, Christopher Spry is a survivor with a zest for life.With his former foster mother in prison, he can finally tell the story of his suffering and what it is like to grow up brutalised and abandoned with no one to hear your plight.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In April 2007, 62-year-old Eunice Spry was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the systematic wounding, cruelty and assault of the vulnerable children whose welfare had been entrusted to her. Her Gloucestershire home should have been a refuge. Instead it became a prison where, over the course of 20 years, her charges were routinely abused and tortured. To the outside world, Jehovah's Witness Spry presented herself as a pillar of the community. Behind closed doors she was a sadistic tyrant who beat the children with metal bars, forced wooden sticks down their throats and made them eat lard, bleach, vomit and faeces.
The details of the trial horrified the nation, and attracted considerable press attention. Now, for the first time, one of the victims - known in the case as 'Child C' and now 19 years old - tells the full, shocking story of what went on in Eunice Spry's house of evil. Child C is a gripping, heartbreaking story of enforced isolation, psychological and physical abuse and a childhood denied. Despite all he has been through, Christopher Spry is a survivor with a zest for life. With his former foster mother in prison, he can finally tell the story of his suffering and what it is like to grow up brutalised and abandoned with no one to hear your plight.

Quatrième de couverture

'We were told we had devils inside us, that Armageddon was coming. We were starved, and on one occasion when I was caught stealing food she held my hand on the hob until it was a blistered, gooey mess. You feel shock, then pain you can't describe. Later, when she saw what she'd done, she just laughed.'

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Éditeur
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847371477
ISBN 13 
9781847371478
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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