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The Asylum

By: Ann Cusack - contributor, Carol Minto, Joe Cusack - contributor
Narrated by: Fiona McNeill
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For 46 years, Carol Minto has quietly gone about her life, carrying with her the most extraordinary and heartbreaking secrets.

Born into poverty and with mostly absent parents, Carol helped to raise her nine siblings. But when she was just 11 years old, her older brother began to sexually abuse her. After four years, Carol managed to escape - and ran away from home.

Picked up by social services, they place her at Aston Hall in Derby, a psychiatric hospital now infamous for the ghoulish ‘truth serum’ experiments it carried out on children. Over three years, Carol was stripped, sedated, assaulted and raped by Kenneth Milner, the doctor in charge.

Eventually she is released back into the community, aged 18, and has a daughter. But the baby is taken away for adoption, and Carol’s trauma intensifies. In 2010, Carol finally plucked up the courage to speak out about the abuse she suffered - and received justice, at last.

In The Asylum, Carol tells the full story of how she overcame unimaginable suffering, to find the happiness and solace she has today as a mother and grandmother.

©2021 Ann Cusack (P)2021 W F Howes Abuse Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Relationships Sexual Abuse & Harassment Women Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Inspiring
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tough but great listen. it's unbelievable that people have had to go through that.

must add to the list

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Well done for sharing this story. it must have been painful. thank you for helping to prosecute those who wronged you and others. I wish you all the best for your life in the future. xx

harrowing story

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terribly sad story because of the abuse and a terribly sad life after the abuse. the narration was a little weird. spoke in 3/4word sentences although the tone was nice.
easy to listen to.

very good

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Well written and told, sad, but so many children seem to have suffered in silence.
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Can feel the pain carol went through.

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The raw honesty,of Carols life story ,her strength to overcome every kind of abuse she had to endure and to finally get justice for her abusers

Carols strength and resilience to face every day of her young life alone

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