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...

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....

“It was like going through a door which had been locked all my life. I had walked past it every single day, afraid to even rattle the handle. Now I was smashing the locks, I was wrenching it from the hinges, and I was marching through. Here I am!"A woman whose mother twice tried to kill her as a child has won a ground-breaking battle in the supreme courts for the right to claim compensation. Monica Allan’s legal victory set a precedent and has opened the floodgates for others to cl...