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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 Heartfelt
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I couldn’t stop listening there was so much emotion in this book I just want to hug her
LOVED THE BOOK

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME AND HEARTBREAKING

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wow, powerful, the accemt is sometimes hard to understand but it's read beautifully, kind of broken, like Carol

omg

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firstly I am so sorry this happened to you and happens to other girls still today. your story was sad but also showed such strength. xo

strength

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A truly heartbreaking and awe inspiring tell of Carol Minto’s life. What an incredible woman! I was gripped from start to finish, and my heart broke for how Carol, and many other women, were treated. Such a cruel, heartless stigma surrounding sexual abuse.

I am beyond grateful that Carol survived her traumatic life and the story was told.

Strength, Courage and Resilience!!

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couldn't put it down, well written memory of an innocent child and the horrors many children endured at Aston hall. very sad times.

courageous writer.

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