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Mary Bell: The 11-Year-Old Killer

Killer Psyche

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Do Things Need Their Mommy?

Mary Flora Bell was born on May 26, 1957, in Northumberland, England. Betty and Billy Bell were a sex worker who specialized in sadomasochism as a dominatrix. In the first four years of Mary's life, Betty tried to get rid of her multiple times by giving her away or trying to kill her. When Mary was a year old, she was rushed to the hospital after overdosing on her grandmother's headache medication. Six months later, the siblings were saved from another potentially fatal overdose by their aunt,. She discovered the children on the floor with drenomil pills all around.

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