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So you say what has she done that is clearly ‘evil’? Well she acted like a nice lady that adopts children and supposedly takes care of them. Of course she doesn’t! Amelia Dyer adopts them but then after about 3-5 months she starts neglecting them. Miss Dyer gets letters from the birth parents and tells them that their child/children are doing great yet we all know the child/children are doing horrible! In the website, (http://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/dyer-amelia.htm) the text states, (Paragraph 13, Line 3) “From Contact with a midwife, Ellen Dane, she learnt of an easier way to earn a living - using her own home to provide lodgings for young women who had conceived illegitimately and then farming off the babies for adoption or allowing them

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