The Wicked Crimes of Mary Bell

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  @whowantswaffles · 2 years ago

  This is what bugs me when people say "back in my day xyz didn't happen!" yes, yes it did. Kids were terribly abused. Awful murders happened. Babies were neglected. You just didn't know about it.

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• BA

  @Badficwriter · 2 years ago

  Reminder that families with sexual abuse will often lie about it, even long after the fact.  The fact her family didn't corroborate sexual abuse of Mary doesn't mean it didn't happen.

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• EL

  @elainefrawley9358 · 2 years ago

  I know it was a different time but  3 and 4 year olds out running around playing alone is hard to comprehend in this day and age

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• SA

  @saffronsworld1508 · 1 year ago

  I'm elderly (78) and confined to bed because of crippling chronic pain. Your videos and those on the Brief Case channel have provided me with hours of listening enjoyment. I have a large tablet that is held by a special device which enables me to lie in bed and listen to music and narrated videos like yours while I enjoy a paint-by-numbers app. Thank you for putting the effort into resesrching and presenting the stories you relate to your fans. Cheers.

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  @Verityization · 2 years ago

  When I was a child growing up in the late 1960s Germany, we children used to recite a little poem about "Mary Bell, child of Hell."  The story about her crimes must have been in the news at the time.

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• GR

  @grimm29 · 2 years ago

  Scary for any parent TBH - you warn your bairns about the danger from strangers, but don't think about the serious harm that could come from other children. Thank you for another excellently researched documentary

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• SA

  @Savvy1718 · 2 years ago

  Knowing child development and how a lack of care + affection and trauma impact that development plus everything about a person that comes with it, I’m sadly not surprised Mary was such a violent child. Infants need to be held and emotionally regulated, for their emotional and physical needs met for their brains to develop well. Brains are foundations up and those first months and years are critical. If her mother didn’t even want her at the birth and spent Mary’s childhood sending her away, hating her and even trying to kill her, that makes for a terrible brain soup for Mary. I’m mostly shocked she was able to grow up seemingly well, have a family, and become a member of society with no further behavioral concerns and who feels genuine remorse. I’m happy for her in that regard, that’s really promising for other kids with trauma backgrounds,  while still devastated for the lives she took and families who lost the boys. This case is devastating on a lot of levels.

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• AC

  @acefrost2845 · 2 years ago

  The last part brought tears to my eyes, no parent deserves to burry their child, and no child deserves to die before they had a life, he could have been someone who saved lives, had a family but his future was stolen and it can't be given back.

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• DE

  @deniseleplatt1616 · 2 years ago

  Yay a new video from Paul. Thanks so much

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• GE

  @gennevievehuskshirley9287 · 2 years ago

  That last bit from the mother did me in. I found myself crying in the bathroom at 6 a.m. as I got ready to go to work. See, this is why I tend to prefer to listen to older stories, where everyone who was there is dead and gone. Modern stories hit me harder because I know there are people out there living with the pain.

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• MI

  @michaelsinger4638 · 2 years ago

  Mary was a victim of horrific abuse from her mother and others at a young age. Then she went on to abuse others who were smaller than her.  It’s a horrific cycle and I hope she was able to break it with her own family.

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• KI

  @kittensugars · 2 years ago

  The first five years of life, makes the human being. It's SO important that infants are brought into a safe and peaceful home.

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