description: Anne suffered years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse by her mother who tried to suffocate her many times.Pat spent his childhood in an industrial school where he was raped by a Brother.Geraldine's parents never responded to her screams for help when she tried to beat her brother away from her bed.As the extent of childhood sexual abuse unfolds, we have been forced to look at the dark underside of our society. We recoil from each revelation with shock and disgust and then turn away and forget. But what happens to the victims? How do they survive?This book is a collection of the survivors own stories. Some are doing well, others less so. All have spoken to Iseult O'Doherty with openness and honesty about the horrors they have come through and the long, slow struggle to heal themselves and find peace.
language: English
title: Stolen childhood: Testimonies of the survivors of child sexual abuse
titlecomplete: Stolen childhood: Testimonies of the survivors of child sexual abuse
publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd