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Work InformationChild C: Surviving a Foster Mother's Reign of Terror by Christopher Spry
  
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Eunice Spry had two natural children and five foster/ adopted children l, three of whom suffered shocking and evil injuries and beatings for over 10 years. Why these three? What did she see or hate in these three vulnerable innocent children? She made their every day horrible, yet that's all these children knew; they didn't know that normal families don't function like this.
I can't understand a woman like Eunice. I can't understand what in her mind makes her think this abuse is ok. She used anything and everything to abuse these kids over and over; things that horrify the rest of us. I don't understand how she could turn it on and off as she did when they were in Florida and the children had a temporary reprieve where she seemed almost loving. I also don't understand how she got away with it so long. What is wrong with the other adults in these children's lives that they would turn a blind eye to what was going on? They would have to have been complete morons not to know and anyone knowing and allowing it should have been charged and punished as well.
This story is fascinating, yet so tragic and heartbreaking. I couldn't read a lot at once, it is intense and raw. It is well written by one of the abused, Christopher, whose childhood was ruined by Eunice and will carry scars both physical and mental for the rest of his life.
I altered between anger and rage to disbelief that someone could be that cruel to anyone, much less a child put in her care.
In my opinion, this witch did not get anything close to a long enough sentence but I know there is a special place in hell waiting just for her. (