Cries Unheard

Title: Cries Unheard
Author: Gitta Sereny
ISBN: 9780805060676
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 416
Publisher Description: In 1968, at the age of eleven, Mary Bell was tried and convicted of murdering two small boys in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Even before she came to court, Mary Bell was demonized as the incarnation of evil, the bad seed personified. But Gitta Sereny, who covered the sensational trial, never accepted this explanation. Over the years Sereny came to realize that if we are ever to understand the pressures that lead children to commit serious crimes, then we need to turn to the adults who once were those children.