Told with raw emotions and ferocious honesty, this is the real, on-the-record, story of one woman’s descent down the rabbit hole of gangland, and her efforts, as a daughter, mother and girlfriend, to claw herself out. Motherhood will be a rude awakening, but it may also be her saving grace. Waking for the second time in two weeks in a hospital bed, to the news that she is pregnant, she realises it’s time to turn her life around.
She believes she is invincible.But the consequences of her actions are soon to catch up with her. At the age of fifteen, she stabs an innocent man in the street, earning her unrivalled respect and ‘Top-Dog’ status amongst her crew. She never leaves her house without a knife. A member of the Younger 28s, a notorious gang that terrorised the postcodes around Brixton in the 90s, Sour escapes a troubled family life to immerse herself in the street life of likking and linking. SOUR is the true story of a former Brixton gang girl, drug dealer and full-time criminal. And the reason I reckon I got away with it for so long? Because I was a girl. Shanking, stabbing, steaming, robbing, I did it all, rolling with the Man Dem. Helpless is Marianne’s heartbreaking story as told the bestselling author of Don’t Tell Mummy. Two months after the birth she realized that for the baby\'s sake she would have to hand her over for adoption. Marianne who still missed her first child desperately struggled to keep her second daughter. Scared for her life and that of her baby\'s she ran away from home carrying only a plastic bag stuffed with her few possessions. This time her father literally tried to beat the baby out of her but she failed to miscarry. Marianne returned home, but the neighbour\'s abuse continued and a year later she was pregnant again. Six weeks later the baby she had already grown to love was taken away for adoption.
Without family support the teenager gave birth to a daughter in the unmarried mother\'s home. Still too frightened to speak out she refused to tell the social workers who the father was. With no one to turn to she kept ‘their secret’. Less than twelve months later she was caught in a trap of fear – if she talked she would be punished. ‘Little Lady’ he called her over the few months he groomed her. Only one person gave her the affection she craved a neighbour who seeing the vulnerable child knew she was easy prey for his perverted desires. Uncared for and unkempt she was rejected at school by her peers and scarcely tolerated by her teachers. Neglected by her careless parents, Marianne turned to her neighbour, the one person that she thought she could trust….Eight year old Marianne, the eldest of five children, was neglected by her slovenly mother and her violent alcoholic father.
SAMMIE BUSH EX GIRL FREE
Lives are ripped apart and painstakingly mended with a shared strength that finally enabled the sisters to free themselves from the shadows of their past. Their stories reveal a community spread throughout the world and its legacy of anorexia, depression, drug abuse, suicide and even murder.
SAMMIE BUSH EX GIRL FULL
Now the three sisters have finally come together to reveal in full and horrific detail their existence within the Children of God cult. Years later, Juliana found the courage to escape, knowing that the child she was carrying would be subjected to the same fate if she did not. They were denied access to formal schooling, had to wander the streets begging for money, and were mercilessly beaten for \'crimes\' as unpredictable as reading an encyclopaedia.Finally, unable to live with the guilt of what had happened to her children, their mother escaped with Kristina, cutting herself off from her remaining children in a bid to save at least one child.ĭesperate to save her sisters, Kristina eventually returned to the place of her torture to free Celeste.
They were made to watch and mimic orgies, received love letters and sexual advances from men old enough to be their grandfather, and were forced into abusive relationships. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage.įrom as early as three years old, Juliana, Celeste and Kristina were treated as sexual beings by their \'guardians\' in the infamous religious cult known as the Children of God. The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood.
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