The Boy Behind the Door

by David Bisson (Author), EvangelineDeSchouen (Author), EvangelinedeSchonen (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.20

  In August 1982, 12-year-old David Bisson, dressed in an anorak and a woolly coat, was found in a public garden in Paris. Taken to a police station, he told a story that at first no one could believe. He had just spent eight years of his life imprisoned by his mother, first chained to a pipe in the bathroom, then locked for the last year in a wardrobe, fed only on scraps. His mother had subjected him to a regime of horrific punishments - he was constantly beaten or burned with cigarettes for speaking out of turn, eating too slowly, or playing quietly. At his mother's trial David said nothing, but in this book, with the support of his counsellor, Evangeline de Schonen, he tells his story