[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

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...Prince Andrew/Epstein were who I immediately thought of as well ...I mean, to think that a mother could abuse her own children in that way is unthinkable...but that she also took them to others to abuse...?...just monstrous...and yeah, it was heartbreaking for both of them and there was no ‘right or wrong’ of it...I’ve read a little more of the story and that’s worth doing as well...because not everything was covered, it was obviously Marcus and Alex’s story mainly...I don’t know if it was clear that their father wasn’t their father, their father had died when they were small children and they hadn’t actually been made aware of that either...and that’s why their father/stepfather was so cold toward them...he had two children also who he favoured and he called Marcus and Alex the ‘dim twins’ because they had dyslexia and they had to sleep in the shed...he refused for the school they had gone to, to be paid for...so he took them out and they went to a local school and were incredibly bullied in their time there...their mother also sexually abused their step brother Oliver...and it’s said that her husband wasn’t aware of any of this...anyway, that they’ve managed to find ‘normality’ in their lives and even found love etc, is incredible, really...and their mother never became answerable in her whole life...that’s also all kinds of screwed up....

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I don't know if I even want to hear more about it, so sad, in a way you would nearly think Alex is lucky not to have all those memories.

So sad finding all of those presents as well in the attic. Such evilness and cruelty, how can a mother hate her children so much?