Christy Anne Brown, 33, a former English teacher at Cyprus High School in Magna, Utah who in August pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse of one of her 16-year-old male students has been sentenced.
A disturbing insight into the life of Christy Brown, the paralysed artist immortalised in the film My Left Foot, has been uncovered by a biography claiming that he was neglected by his alcoholic wife.
The Hollywood-style happy ending depicted in the Oscar-winning movie has been challenged by the book, which exposes his wife, Mary Carr, as a former prostitute who took lovers of both sexes.
More controversial, however, are its allegations that her drink problem and her failure to look after him properly during his last days contributed to his decline and premature death aged The book adds a disconcerting final chapter to the story portrayed by the uplifting but unsentimental Jim Sheridan film. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, the 1989 film told of the genius that enabled Brown to create paintings and write his acclaimed books with his only moving body part - his left foot.
Based on Brown's 1954 autobiography of the same name, My Left Foot described how the cerebral palsy sufferer overcame tremendous odds to express himself as a painter, novelist and poet.
In the film, Brown was seen wooing Mary Carr, who was his nurse. In between, there were flashback sequences to his early years as the 10th of 22 children born to a Dublin bricklayer.
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