Eunice Spry
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Eunice Spry is a British woman from Tewkesbury
in Gloucestershire
, a Jehovah's Witness who was convicted of 26 charges of child abuse against children in her foster care
in April 2007. She was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in and ordered to pay £80,000 costs. In sentencing, the judge told Spry that it was the 'worst case in his 40 years practicing law'.
The foster mother forced three children in her care (two foster, one adopted) to eat their own excrement and vomit, rammed sticks down the children’s throats, rubbed their skin with sandpaper and would lock them naked in a room for a month. Two of her foster children have published books about their childhoods. Her oldest foster son Christopher Spry, nicknamed 'Child C', published a book of the same name about his childhood living with Eunice Spry. Her foster daughter, Alloma Gilbert, published 'Deliver Me From Evil'.
In September 2008 Spry's sentence was reduced by the High Court
to 12 years.
Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury is a town in Gloucestershire, England. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook...
in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, a Jehovah's Witness who was convicted of 26 charges of child abuse against children in her foster care
Foster care
Foster care is the term used for a system in which a minor who has been made a ward is placed in the private home of a state certified caregiver referred to as a "foster parent"....
in April 2007. She was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in and ordered to pay £80,000 costs. In sentencing, the judge told Spry that it was the 'worst case in his 40 years practicing law'.
The foster mother forced three children in her care (two foster, one adopted) to eat their own excrement and vomit, rammed sticks down the children’s throats, rubbed their skin with sandpaper and would lock them naked in a room for a month. Two of her foster children have published books about their childhoods. Her oldest foster son Christopher Spry, nicknamed 'Child C', published a book of the same name about his childhood living with Eunice Spry. Her foster daughter, Alloma Gilbert, published 'Deliver Me From Evil'.
In September 2008 Spry's sentence was reduced by the High Court
High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
to 12 years.