The Boy in the cellar Stephen Smith tells his heartbreaking story
Anything Goes with James English
Anything Goes with James English
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🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Anything goes with James English Ep/91.
Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.
Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for thirteen years.
Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary world full of monsters he would draw to try and block out the physical and mental torture inflicted on him by his brutal father. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his 'imprisonment', Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school, and human contact until he'd reached his teenage years.
Eventually, he escaped only to fall prey to the instigators of two of the worst cases of institutional abuse in the UK at Aston Hall hospital and St. William's Catholic School where kids where being drugged, raped and some even killed.
Stephens true story of torture and cruelty, that reveals a human's full capacity to fight for survival and search out happiness and hope.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. Number one and today's guest we've got Stephen Smith. First of all brother, I just want to say thanks for coming on the show. |
| 0:27.0 | Thank you very much, mate. |
| 0:28.0 | That's in a read your book, The Boy in the Cellar, it's heart-'s heartbreaking weed very powerful for a boy who was |
| 0:35.7 | kept in the cellar by his mom and dad for 13 years went to a psychiatric is it psychiatric |
| 0:40.6 | his word as well and there for a year over a year yeah yeah Aston Hall and then |
| 0:45.7 | after that you end up involved with priests so we were abused from the first |
| 0:50.2 | 17 years ago I was very grim and the fact that you've wrote this book |
| 0:54.7 | and telling your story is unbelievable and very powerful so congratulations. |
| 0:58.6 | How have you been? |
| 1:01.6 | Great great it's been weird but it's been an adventure. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, yeah. A world went? |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, yeah, this last year and a half you wouldn't believe how crazy it's been. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey, I've done it, so here we are. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm sat talking to you now. |
| 1:16.0 | Who would have thought that? |
| 1:17.0 | Lucky bastards. |
| 1:19.0 | So I always go back to the start with my guest, Stephen. |
| 1:22.0 | How it all began then when you get |
| 1:25.1 | kept in the cellar for 13 years do you remember your first memory? Not really |
| 1:30.7 | first memories it's like it's I tell you what it's like, it's like getting this book, |
| 1:36.0 | knowing it's about me, but there's pages missing. |
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