Book description
'Punished' is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl,
Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the
hands of her sadistic mother. Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she
discovered a secret that ultimately saved her life.
From the age of 3, Vanessa lived in daily terror of her mother's
unpredictable rage. If she was 'naughty', her mother would lash out at
her - with beatings, torture, starvation and making Vanessa sleep in
their garden's pigsty, tied up like an animal. Her mother said her
punishments were God's revenge on her for being the devil's child. Her
father lived in denial of her suffering.
When she was 6 years old, Vanessa's grandfather began to sexually abuse
her - to her despair, aided and abetted by both her mother and
grandmother. At eight years old, she then discovered that the 'mother'
who hated her so much had adopted her as a baby and would never love her
as her own.
At the most horrific times of Vanessa's abuse, she nearly lost all hope
that she would escape her prison, until mysterious things started to
happen to her that allowed her to fight back.
This is the story of how Vanessa survived a childhood that nearly
destroyed her and how her secret led her out of the horrors of her past.
Vanessa Steel was born and brought up on the outskirts of Birmingham in
the 1950s. She survived her childhood ordeals and developed a psychic
gift (as a young child she foresaw the assassination of Kennedy in 1963
oblivious to who he was), and started working professionally as a
medium. She is now one of the most sought after psychic mediums in
Britain with a long list of private clients including many celebrities,
both in the UK and abroad.
