Christopher Spry – Child C: Surviving a Foster Mother’s Reign of Terror

It should have been a refuge. Instead, evil foster mother Eunice Spry’s Gloucestershire home became a prison where, over the course of 20 years, vulnerable children were routinely abused and tortured. To the outside world, Jehova’s Witness Spry presented herself as a pillar of the community. Behind closed doors she was a sadistic tyrant who beat the children in her care with sticks and metal bars, scrubbed their skin with sandpaper and forced them to eat lard, bleach, vomit and faeces.

One of those children, Christopher, now tells his shocking story in 'Child C’ – of how he was kept naked and starving, imprisoned in a squalid room, and in a constant state of psychological trauma. He speaks candidly of how, despite his appalling suffering, he still felt love for his foster mother. His heartbreaking experience pulls no punches, and brings to light the full details of what it is like to grow up brutalised and abandoned with no one to hear your plight. With his tormentor Eunice Spry now serving fourteen years in prison, Christopher can finally tell the full, horrifying story of a trust betrayed and a childhood denied.