Deliver Me From Evil: A Sadistic Foster Mother, A Childhood Torn Apart

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I reckon it might have been because I was taken away so young so maybe I was more impressionable, so she thought she could mould my mind into what she wanted.

I cant believe that a woman like Eunice Spry was allowed to get away with this abuse for such a long time. I remember once at the swimming baths - before Eunice eventually put a stop to such outings - one of the dads noticed my bruised toes and asked: "How did you do that, then?

One of them is the day I went swimming with Charlotte and we met by chance two of her biological siblings, from whom she'd been separated when she went to live with Eunice.

What she did is still affecting people - all of us really - and with Victoria it's ended in a tragedy.It was so so touching and sad, and made me feel anger, sympathy, sadness, and a whole bunch of different emotions. By doing so, she succeeded in removing us from any sort of normal life and contact with the outside world, as we now no longer saw our parents. Shaw's one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Eunice had spotted an opportunity to inherit the farm and make herself a lot of money. Large chunks seemed to be missing, parts of their childhood that her brother described in painstaking detail were omitted.

She forced three - Victoria, Alloma and Christopher - to eat their own excrement, rammed sticks down their throats and rubbed their faces with sandpaper.

When I think of my mum and dad at this time it's as a kind of Hansel and Gretel, lost in the dark and bewildering woods of parenthood, unable to find their way. Looking back now I can see how Thomas and I must have seemed like the sweetest little ripe cherries, ready for the picking. Christopher said: “At first, Eunice had always told us that if the police came to get us it would be because they don't like Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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That security is the greatest gift you can give a child and is something most of us are lucky enough to take for granted. Spry took Victoria in as a baby, later officially adopting her, while she took in Alloma and Christopher as foster children in 1992. The children, who have not disclosed their current location for safety reasons, formed a strong bond with one another to help them survive the horrendous abuse. The memoirs recounted her life at Eunice Spry's home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, where she lived with other foster children in squalor.