MARY BELL : Like Nathaniel Abraham, Mary Bell committed murder at the age of 11 years old, and like Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf, her early life was marred by sexual abuse

MARY BELL

Like Nathaniel Abraham, Mary Bell committed murder at the age of 11 years old, and like Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf, her early life was marred by sexual abuse. She was even prostituted by her parents to make ends meet.

Bell was born to an extremely impoverished family in 1957 in Newcastle, England, and would live an extremely troubled life, from abusive and alcoholic parents to being prostituted and raped. Her mother was highly mentally unstable, and young Mary never really had a chance at a normal life.

At age 11, Mary Bell would meet another girl, Norma Bell (of no relation), who was 13 years old, and the two would become friends.Then, on May 25, 1968, Mary Bell and Norma bell murdered a four-year-old boy by the name of Martin Brown in an abandoned building, though Mary herself actually killed Martin, while Norma was just present.

The police initially wrote the murder off as an accidental death, but upon further investigation, they realized that the boy had been strangled. This is when Mary and Norma broke into an abandoned building and decided to vandalize it.

They left a note behind in the building, claiming responsibility for the killing, which the police initially took to be a prank.Then came the next murder, when the two girls killed a three-year-old boy, this time together, named Brian Howe, luring him into the woods to strangle him. The police would then make the connection and take the two girls a bit more seriously, and they would be brought up on charges.

The charges against Norma were dropped, but Mary ended up serving 12 years before being released. In a bizarre twist of fate, she would give birth to her first child on May 25, 1984, exactly 16 years to the day after the murder of Martin Brown.

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