Een mooie auto stopt voor het huis van de zesjarige Marie in Oldham, Engeland, 1959. Haar vader zegt dat ze op vakantie gaat, maar in werkelijkheid wordt ze naar een kindertehuis in een klooster gestuurd dat wordt geleid door een sadistische en wrede non. Omdat haar familie het zich niet kan veroorloven om haar thuis te houden, moet ze daar vier lange jaren blijven. In het kindertehuis begint een lange periode van fysieke en psychische mishandeling. Marie overleeft het, maar vertelt aan ni...

For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of three newborn babies hidden in her wardrobe. For the first time since exposing her mother's crimes, Joanne breaks her silence over her family's horrific ordeal.Growing up, Joanne suffered at the hands of a violent boyfriend and controlling relatives, as her mother lapsed into a downward spiral following the break-up of her marriage. But the consequences of her mother's lifestyle turned out to be worse than Joanne could ever...

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple: Fred and Rose West.While growing up in poverty-stricken Dublin in the 1960s, Kathleen was abused from a young age. A move to England allowed her to escape, but even so life remained difficult, forcing her to seek refuge.At first, Cromwell Street provided freedom for the sisters who were ent...

Kathleen Richards was pas zeventien toen zij en haar zus Deirdre bij een ogenschijnlijk vriendelijk echtpaar in Gloucester aanklopten: Fred en Rose West. Na een jeugd vol armoede en misbruik in Dublin hoopte Kathleen in Engeland een nieuw begin te vinden. Aanvankelijk leek 25 Cromwell Street een veilige haven, maar al snel veranderde alles in een nachtmerrie. Fred begon haar te misbruiken - met Rose' instemming - en toen medebewoonster Shirley plots verdween, werd de dreiging ondraaglijk. ...

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple: Fred and Rose West.While growing up in poverty-stricken Dublin in the 1960s, Kathleen was abused from a young age. A move to England allowed her to escape, but even so life remained difficult, forcing her to seek refuge.At first, Cromwell Street provided freedom for the sisters who were ent...

Vid elva års ålder blir Carol för första gången sexuellt utnyttjad av sin äldre bror. När hon till slut vågar berätta om övergreppen för sin mamma blir hon utskälld och misstrodd. Efter fyra år av övergrepp, rädsla och skam rymmer hon hemifrån, och hamnar rakt i in en ny mardröm.Socialtjänsten placerar Carol vid Aston Hall, ett mentalsjukhus som numera är ökänt för sina fruktansvärda experiment med en "sanningsdrog" på barn. Där arbetar läkaren Kenneth Milner, som söver ner Carol o...

For 46 years, Carol Minto has quietly gone about her life, carrying with her the most extraordinary and heartbreaking secrets.Born into poverty and with mostly absent parents, Carol helped to raise her nine siblings. But when she was just 11 years old, her older brother began to sexually abuse her. After four years, Carol managed to escape – and ran away from home.Picked up by social services they place her at Aston Hall in Derby; a psychiatric hospital now infamous for the...

“I am just an ordinary mum, yet I would go to the ends of the earth to get justice for my daughter. If I can change the way people are treated, then Jodey will not have died in vain. I now feel that this was her destiny; to change the lives of millions of others.“While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. It was a letter she never saw....

Co-written by Ann Cusack, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Asylum, The Convent, Silent Sisters and AbandonedA woman who was sexually abused by her own father and later gave birth to his daughter is now running a support group which spans 30 countries and has tens of thousands of supporters.Stace Don, now 36, was taken into foster care as a baby after being neglected by her parents. For seven years, she lived an idyllic life, believing her foster parents were her r...

Kathleen var bara 17 år när hon flyttade in hos Fred och Rose West i engelska Gloucester. Kathleen blev vän med en annan inneboende flicka, Shirley. Allt förändrades när Fred våldtog Kathleen. Plötsligt försvann också vännen Shirley …En gastkramande sann historia om att bo hos Storbritanniens mest ökända seriemördare.

After a life in care, with both good and bad experiences of the system, Hope knows all too well what the risks are for children in care as they approach adolescence. Lacking any sense of self-worth or belonging, children in care are often dismissed by the authorities as impossible to manage and, worse, perceived as children who have invited sexual abuse by placing themselves in 'dangerous' situations. They quickly become invisible to the authorities - too old to be perceived as 'children' ...

Christina O’Connor is the main prosecution witness from the Huddersfield Grooming scandal. In 2017, 11 men were convicted of a staggering 43 offences against her, including 22 counts of rape.In this memoir, Christina will describe how, from being a happy child with a loving family, she fell into the clutches of a grooming gang whose abuse of children earned them a total of 221 years in prison. Christina’s helpless parents tried desperately to save their 13 year old daughter as she ...