Mummy from Hell : two brothers, a sadistic mother, a childhood destroyed

My brother Patrick remembers my first beating, of which I assume I was completely unaware. He was just five years old when he watched our mother punching herself again and again in her pregnant stomach while shouting at the top of her voice, 'I don't want this fucking child'! Ken and Patrick Doyle grew up in a family of nine children. For sixteen years their home was a place of suffering. Behind the doors of their ordinary, three-bedroomed house they were subjected to deprivation, cruelty and humiliation at the hands of the one person who should have loved and protected them - their own mother. Starved, savagely beaten, locked up for days on end and sent out to steal, their story is a catalogue of abuse. Yet, despite numerous official reports of abuse from social workers and health boards, their suffering continued ..."In Mummy from Hell", the victims tell the horrifying true story of their childhood and how they survived it. About the Author Kenneth & Patrick Doyle were born and raised in Ireland. The story of the horrific abuse they suffered at the hands of their own mother was first revealed in Ireland's Sunday World. Ken now lives in the US and Patrick in the UK. Kenneth and Patrick Doyle grew up in a family of nine children in Tullamore, Co Offaly. Though the home was dysfunctional and all the children suffered at the hands of their parents, Kenneth and Patrick were singled out for horrific abuse at the hands of their mother. Starved, beaten and sent out to steal, this title tells their story. Ken and Patrick Doyle experienced a life of deprivation, cruelty and humiliation at the hands of the on person who should have loved and protected them- their own mother