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 strangle...