Mary Bell: 10 Year Old Serial Killer
The cases about Mary Bell of Britain in 1968 make headlines in the whole world. Mary bell was only eleven years old at the time she was pronounced as the youngest serial killer in Britain. It is projected the initial life encounters of led to the abnormal behavior that was demonstrated by the young girl. Having been deprived off the family love right from birth and having grown in an environment where violence was the daily encounters, it is evident that Mary’s case was a result of psychological problem. The case of Mary shows hoe environmental conditions can lead to reactions that bring serious consequences to the person as well as the society
Mary Bell the murderer.
Mary bell was born to cause trouble .At the tender age of eleven years Mary Bell had started committing all types of climes from assault to violence including murder which made Mary a legend as the youngest serial killer in Britain.
Mary bell was born 1978. She was the first born of Betty who bore her at the age of sixteen years. Betty who is described to have strong religious background was born in Glasgow in 1940. Mary’s biological father is not well known but it has been believed that her step father was Billy Bell. Bell is believed to have married Betty slightly after Mary was born. Later on Bell was convicted of several crimes and spent most of his life in prison. Due to lack of a stable job, Bell was unable to provide for the needs of Betty and her small kid. Due to the hard economic situation, Betty turned to prostitution as a means to meet the needs of her child and herself. As a result, little Mary was left at the mercies relatives and any well wisher for the better part of her life as a kid. Mary was once left to a complete stranger outside an abortion clinic. The paternal love she greatly deserved was nowhere to be found.
Betty is suggested to have suffered from “Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy” this condition was discovered in 1977 and is demonstrated by caregivers out of their will hurts the person they care for so that they can obtain sympathy from other people. This was illustrated by the fact that despite the harsh treatment of Mary by her mother, the mother always claimed the child. It is reported that Betty once told her sister that Mary had died through an accident where Mary was ran over by a vehicle so that she could obtain sympathy from the sister. (Timmonet 2009: Para 11)
Mary’s problems started right from birth where she was introduced to a harsh environment in Newcastle in the Scortswood area. The environment around the characterized by poverty shaped the life of Mary together with the encounters in her early childhood life. She is reported to have started showing off and had proclaimed that “I am a murderer” was never taken seriously by people in the community around where they lived. Bell grew up in this area where problems ranging from domestic violence to criminal acts were a day to day experience. Some sources from the family members suggests that at several instances Betty had tried to kill Bell and make her death appear accidental in her first few years in her life. Having been raised in a cruel environment, vandalism, theft and attacks to other children was the order of the day for the young Bell who is reported to have made several proclamations that she was a murderer way back before she started committing the crimes. Mary bell has reported rape encounters by her mother and her mother s clients.
At the age if eleven, Mary was living in a home as empty as her life. Nobody was showing concern in her life. She was living by her own and developed signs that proved that she could not bond with anyone. She was reported to have attacked young children in the neighborhood but the authorities took no action and thus escaped unpunished owing to her age. At the age of 10 years Mary also known as May committed her first murder by solely killing a four years old Martin Brown on May 25, 1968 when Mary was arrested and charged in the court of law, she was acquitted of any wrong doings by the jury.
The next after the murder of Brown, a neighborhood nursery was broken into and writing of Mary claiming responsibility of the murder of Brown was retrieved from the nursery school. Mary had written that, “I murder so that I may come back”, “fuch off, we murder, watch out fanny and fagot”, “we murdered Martin, fuck you bastard” it was only later that Mary admitted to have killed martin. (Murderuk. com (n.d; para 2).
To show the pleasure in killing Mary repeatedly asked the martin’s auntie “do u miss martin? Do you cry for him?” while asking this Mary was grinning. Also Mary and Norma her have been reported to have gone to the home of the murdered Martin and asked the mother on whereabouts of Martin. When the mother told them that he was dead Mary said “Oh, I know he’s dead, I wanted to see him in his coffin,’ (multiply.com, 2009)
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