While far from idyllic, Lesley's first three years were happy ones. She was a cheerful little girl who loved her parents, grandparents and her sister. But when tragedy strikes her fragile family, Lesley's world is turned upside down. She is adopted by a cruel, sadistic couple, who force her to go and live in Scotland, far away from those she loves.
Aged just four, Lesley is torn away from her secure, loving world and taken to live in what she would later describe as `The Devil's House'. There she discovers just how evil and vicious humanity can be, and just how many ways there are to hurt and humiliate an innocent child.
The vicious daily beatings make her fear for her life but almost worse is the way the neglect and humiliation makes her feel totally worthless. The psychological damage of being called useless, thick, stupid, as well as the name calling, has far-reaching consequences.
The world around Lesley is an unkind place. The adults she turns to for help refuse to believe her story and her school friends ridicule her. Then there's her adoptive siblings, who are all too happy to treat her as their slave, humiliate her and in one case subject her to a shocking depraved attack.
Desperate to save herself, Lesley seeks help time and time again, but no one believes her. Can she keep her dream of escaping alive? And will she ever find someone on her side?
This is the true story of how one little girl survived eleven brutal years at the mercy of two sick, sadistic abusers.
- ISBN13 9781911589914
- Publish Date 30 October 2018
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 February 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Choir Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 206
- Language English