UK - Serialised memoir of Mae West, daughter of Fred and Rose, in the Mail

[MelmothTheLost]

How I survived growing up in the House of Horrors – by Fred and Rose West’s daughter

Introduction to a series of articles about her life in Cromwell Street:

How I survived growing up in the House of Horrors – by Fred and Rose West’s daughter | Daily Mail Online

The main serialisation starts on 3rd September.

It's good to know she's managed to build a decent life for herself after the crap start she had.

 

[dalsglen]

Can't even begin to imagine just how tough her life has been. What a horrific burden to carry.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Can't even begin to imagine just how tough her life has been. What a horrific burden to carry.

Indeed, considering one of her sisters, Heather, was one of the victims.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

'We played dress-up with a cupboard full of women's clothes... we didn't know they belonged to Dad's victims': Serial killer Fred and Rose West's daughter Mae reveals her nightmarish childhood

In the basement, we’d jump from one cushion to another, imagining that the floor was a sea full of sharks. It’s so chilling to think about that now, given that there really were horrors under that floor.

As Heather and I reached our mid-teens, our older sister Anne Marie — Dad’s daughter by his first wife — came to visit. One day, I told her how we had to keep dodging Dad’s sexual advances. ‘You might not be able to do it for ever,’ she said. And she went on to tell me that Dad had raped and sexually abused her with Mum’s help.

Disturbing reality of life inside Fred and Rose West's 'house of horrors' | Daily Mail Online

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Brainwashed by my brutal mother: Rose West abused her own children - and helped her husband Fred murder ten women before waging a toxic war from behind bars as revealed here for the first time by their daughter Mae

None of my seven siblings was closer to me than my elder sister Heather, who disappeared from our home in Gloucester shortly after her 16th birthday.

I had no idea what had happened to her, until the police knocked on our door in February 1994 and started digging up the garden. Then they unearthed a human femur bone. And another.

In my heart, I knew immediately it was Heather. Nothing felt real; I couldn't even cry. I just sat on the sofa next to Mum, who was also silent, as though she simply couldn't take in the enormity of it all.

Rose West abused her own children ..revealed for the first time by daughter Mae | Daily Mail Online

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