A mother-of-four whose children have all been left with disabilities after doctors encouraged her to take a drug during pregnancy without warning her of the risks has heartbreakingly revealed how her daughter is a 'prisoner in her own bedroom'.
Karen Buck, 53, was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was 12 years old and initially had two drugs pumped into her that completely 'zombified' her and left her feeling like she was walking around 'asleep'.
The devastating trauma she has faced throughout her life began shortly after - when a group of men took advantage of her vulnerability and gang raped her at the age of 13.
Numb and sedated by the drugs, she was moved onto Epilim - one of the leading sodium valproate drugs to control epilepsy seizures. But this would tragically mark the start of another four decades of torture.
Despite it being known since the 1970s that valproate can harm babies in the womb, Ms Buck and countless other expectant mothers have been prescribed the drug over the last five decades without being warned of the risk of birth defects.
