For 46 years, Carol Minto has quietly gone about her life, carrying with
her the most extraordinary and heartbreaking secrets. Born into poverty
and with mostly absent parents, Carol helped to raise her nine siblings.
But when she was just 11 years old, her older brother began to sexually
abuse her. After four years, Carol managed to escape - and ran away from
home. Picked up by social services they place her at Aston Hall in
Derby; a psychiatric hospital now infamous for the ghoulish 'truth
serum' experiments it carried out on children. Over three years, Carol
was stripped, sedated, assaulted and raped by Kenneth Milner, the doctor
in charge. Eventually she is released back into the community, aged 18,
and has a daughter. But the baby is taken away for adoption and Carol's
trauma intensifies. In 2010 Carol finally plucked up the courage to
speak out about the abuse she suffered - and received justice, at last.
In The Asylum, Carol tells the full story of how she overcame
unimaginable suffering, to find the happiness and solace she has today
as a mother and grandmother.