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Deliver Me from Evil: A Sadistic Foster Mother, a Childhood Torn Apart
'When I was a little girl I believed what I was told over and over again: that I was evil, that I deserved to be tortured because I was the Devil's child . . .'
In April 2007 foster-mother Eunice Spry was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for her sadistic abuse of the children in her care. The details of her cruelty were so sickening they shocked the country. Alloma Gil...more
In April 2007 foster-mother Eunice Spry was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for her sadistic abuse of the children in her care. The details of her cruelty were so sickening they shocked the country. Alloma Gil...more
Paperback, 267 pages
Published
April 30th 2008
by Pan Publishing
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One day I was browsing through a shelf of Borders, full of these autobiographies/biographies of troubled/traumatized childhoods. This one struck me, and I really wanted to read it, and I received it for my birthday. :)
I finished this in about 2 sittings. I would've finished it in one but my sister and I were reading it at the same time, and had to rotate.
It was so so touching and sad, and made me feel anger, sympathy, sadness, and a whole bunch of different emotions. Moving book.
I finished this in about 2 sittings. I would've finished it in one but my sister and I were reading it at the same time, and had to rotate.
It was so so touching and sad, and made me feel anger, sympathy, sadness, and a whole bunch of different emotions. Moving book.
Criada no Inferno é o relato real e terrível de uma criança que devido as circunstâncias difíceis em que nasceu teve de ser criada na casa de uma família de acolhimento. Alloma nasceu de uns jovens adolescentes toxicodependentes e com o passar do tempo as condições de vida foram piorando e entregaram-na a Eunice uma mulher que aparentava ser muito simpática mas que no fundo era uma mulher doente e psicopata.
Logo que Alloma foi viver com Eunice deu-se de conta que muitas coisas estavam erradas ma...more
Logo que Alloma foi viver com Eunice deu-se de conta que muitas coisas estavam erradas ma...more
I bought and read this book a year or two ago. It was very difficult to put down and probably even more difficult to get through--if that makes any sense. It wasn't the writing style or the voice, but rather the material--which is no surprise. It was absolutely heartbreaking and it triggered so much anger in me. Just the fact that someone like Eunice had these kids and brutalized them for years without having a single soul know about it was maddening. I honestly admire Gilbert and the other kids...more
Eunice Spry wants children to foster. But not for the good of the child, but to fill her own sick perverted world with innocent lives that she can control and manipulate. Alloma Gilbert is one such child. Alloma and her parents are taken in by Eunice, who comes across as a loving, caretaker. After all, the woman has her own two daughters and has fostered other children. But what Alloma's parents didn't know was that they had placed their daughter in the hands of an evil, malicious woman. Eunice...more
Just finished this book this morning. It is a good book if you can really call books like these good after the pain and suffering these children go through. I cant believe that a woman like Eunice Spry was allowed to get away with this abuse for such a long time. Just goes to show we should always be aware of whats going on around us. Maybe if others had the same view less abuse would happen.
I read this in a few sitting over lunch breaks etc - fairly easy reading as it was another version of the same abuse I had already read in "Child C" by the authors brother.
The abuse was horrific, inhumane and shocking, these children have truly clawed their way from hell and for the most part seem to be leading good lives.
I must say however, the writing didn't emotionally engage me like "child c" it was hard to read in a few parts but I felt she alienated her reader slightly being clinical abo...more
The abuse was horrific, inhumane and shocking, these children have truly clawed their way from hell and for the most part seem to be leading good lives.
I must say however, the writing didn't emotionally engage me like "child c" it was hard to read in a few parts but I felt she alienated her reader slightly being clinical abo...more
Jan 12, 2013
Jessica
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5 of 5 stars
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A true story recounted by Alloma Gilbert, who lived a life of constant pain, torture, and fear, with her two other foster siblings, at the hands of her foster carer Eunice Spry who was sentenced to prison for 14 years.
Gilbert recounts how Spry kept them hidden from the outside world, groomed her parents into placing her in the hell hole, and brainwashed them into believing they were bad children. The Devil's own.
The story follows as Gilbert goes to live with Spry and soon is forced to change h...more
Gilbert recounts how Spry kept them hidden from the outside world, groomed her parents into placing her in the hell hole, and brainwashed them into believing they were bad children. The Devil's own.
The story follows as Gilbert goes to live with Spry and soon is forced to change h...more
I enjoyed this book for a number of reasons. One of them being it's contemporary so it was relevant to me. I was born only 3 years after Alloma so the contrast between our two lives was striking and it also brought back memories. I suffer with a bad memory so it's nice to be reminded of things like playing power rangers at school. It's an interesting story, it's emotional but the author doesn't over hype it up. It's quite plain and simple and down to earth, I suppose a lot like Alloma. It's roun...more
i bought this book yesterday afternoon and finished it last night it was so horrifying to know there are such sadistic people out there i look at my stepson who i treat as if he were my own and cant imagine why anyone could harm such a small and innocent child at parts the book made me feel like i had a lump in my throat that was hard to swallow because to know the book is a true story it makes it worse the pain and suffering those children went through i cant imagine but for a girl who wasnt al...more
Heartbreaking to read. I can't believe the amount of pain that Alloma and the other children had to endure from such an evil act of torture, and by a women who was expected to be trusted in their care. There's no words to fully describe what it must have been like for those children over so many years. This book helps any reader to become more aware of what is out there in the world and appreciate what we have more, very well written and the message of the story was expressed just enough for us...more
Well I feel so sorry for these kids that Eunice Sprye was allowed to raise. I think she should have gotten LIFE in prison for the cruel acts she committed against these poor children. On the book though I was not as impressed with Alloma's writing as I was her foster brothers writing in Child C. I found his book about his childhood much more readable. But then again as a woman who hardly went to school she did a very good job. I just hope someday that all the child abusers have to face what they...more
This is a book about a little girl who was abused by her foster mother. Some parts are hard to read, because of the details in the horrible abuse. It was a good book though and makes you think closer to the poor kids who get lost in the foster system.
Shocking not only that this could and does happen, but even more so that neighbours did not say anything. A brave and well-told story. Fanatical, religious fundamentalist Eunice Spry will hopefully receive some of her own medicine in prison.
On Thursday, April 23, 2009 I wrote:
Finished this book last night. It was hard to read but I felt glad that I knew that this woman was in prison. After I read it I looked her up and discovered Thomas (child C) had also wrote a book about this case, called Child C) I do not plan to buy it cause I think Alloma did tell it like it was.
Finished this book last night. It was hard to read but I felt glad that I knew that this woman was in prison. After I read it I looked her up and discovered Thomas (child C) had also wrote a book about this case, called Child C) I do not plan to buy it cause I think Alloma did tell it like it was.
Aug 07, 2011
Alison Gray
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very sad read. Amazing that a human being who was trusted to care for those children could treat them so bad and get away with it for so long!
I could not put this one down! I can't believe what these kids had to endure. It's inhumane
Another horrible story about another horrible cruel person. Seems there are a lot of them
Was a very good read but heart wrenching to think that people who are entrusted with childrens lives can be so cruel x
I found it to be similar to the book "A Child Called It"
But I never put it down! I loved this book, and found myself tearing up at some parts:(
But I never put it down! I loved this book, and found myself tearing up at some parts:(
MADE ME CRY :(
GOOD BOOK
GOOD BOOK
Shocking... :o(
What an incredibly horrendous childhood Alloma endured. This so called foster 'mother' would read books on tortures given to prisoners of war, and books such as A Child Called It to get ideas on how to further her abuse. I'm truelly shocked that all of the children left in Eunice Spry's care survived.
Alloma Gilbert was sent to live with Eunice when she was 7. At first it seemed like an ideal place to be but it didn't take little Alloma long to realize that things were not at all what they had s...more
Alloma Gilbert was sent to live with Eunice when she was 7. At first it seemed like an ideal place to be but it didn't take little Alloma long to realize that things were not at all what they had s...more
wow
Having previously read Child C, written by the boy who lived with this revolting woman, I had a little back ground going into the book. Still, the horrifying things these poor children endured break my heart. You have to go and hug your child extra tight after reading it. It was interesting to see things through her eyes and I would be interested to read the story of the third child involved.
Very good book!!
Eunice Spry is the Charles Manson of foster mothers. After reading this, you'll want to get your hands on Eunice as soon as she is released from prison. She deserves a long, slow death of public humiliation and torture.
Jeez. It's amazing what horrific things people can think of to do to children. Those poor kids. Thankfully they were able to escape her physical torture but I'm sure they will be tortured for life mentally. So sad.
The thing that bothered me the most (in the kindle edition) there were lots of missing apostrophes and periods. Otherwise it was a good book.
The thing that bothered me the most (in the kindle edition) there were lots of missing apostrophes and periods. Otherwise it was a good book.
I read this book in one night. Once I started reading I just couldnt stop. This is a truly heartbreaking story of an EVIL greedy foster mother. As a mother of four I just couldn't believe the things this woman did to those poor children and she got a way with it for so long I just wanted to jump in and save them. I believe those poor children will need so much therapy to recover if they can ever recover.
Wow. Just wow.
Deliver Me From Evil is Alloma's narrative of her horrifying life growing up with a sadistic, abusive foster mother. Alloma did a wonderful job bringing her story to life for the reader. She grew up in England and the story is very relavent to here and now because the trial only happened in 2007.
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