Eunice Spry

Who is Eunice Spry?

Eunice Spry is a British woman from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, a Jehovah's Witness who was convicted of 26 charges of child abuse against children in her foster care in April 2007. She was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in and ordered to pay £80,000 costs. In sentencing, the judge told Spry that it was the 'worst case in his 40 years practicing law'.

The foster mother forced three children in her care to eat their own excrement and vomit, rammed sticks down the children’s throats, rubbed their skin with sandpaper and would lock them naked in a room for a month. Two of her foster children have published books about their childhoods. Her oldest foster son Christopher Spry, nicknamed 'Child C', published a book of the same name about his childhood living with Eunice Spry. Her foster daughter, Alloma Gilbert, published Deliver Me From Evil.

In September 2008 Spry's sentence was reduced by the High Court to 12 years.