Out Of The Darkness Mary Ellen Wilson
Olivia Luz
Left alone during the day to find her own playthings a few strings and a pet spider named timmy the situation only became worse when her mother returned home to administer shockingly brutal daily beatings.
In 1874 an amazing event took place. The american society for the prevention of cruelty to animals aspca initiated the rescue of a severely abused child named mary ellen wilson. Orphaned and raised in devastating poverty young mary ellen wilson was not so lucky. Little mary ellen as she became known was beaten burned and slashed with scissors her brutal adoptive mother mary connolly locking her indoors for over 7 years.
Out of the darkness vividly details mary ellen s life as a captive in her hell s kitchen tenement.
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