As if Heaven had Forgotten Me: neglected and abused in my own home

From her earliest childhood on, Amelie is at the mercy of the hatred of a woman she is forced to call "mom." On the outside, the Sanders are the perfect family. But Amelie hardly gets anything to eat or drink, is locked up, tortured and humiliated. There’s not much she’s not given harsh punishment for. It’s not until much later that Amelie finds out what happened to her birth mother. As she had almost lost all hope, she finally manages to escape at the age of 21 …