Kathy's real story
Subtitle: a culture of false allegations exposed
By: Hermann Kelly
Publisher: Prefect; Prefect Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dunleer, Co Louth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781906351007
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Abused children; Child abuse; Catholic Church; Children; Institutional care; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Impostors and imposture
Description: Kathy O'Beirne's book Kathy's story alleged that she was abused by her father, experimented upon in a psychiatric hospital, raped by priests and then slammed up in a Magdalene Laundry where she had a baby at 14. Abused or abuser? Brave truth-teller or a money-grabbing fraudster? See the evidence, hear from those who knew her as she gre wup. Read how friends were bribed to bear false witness and journalists threatened.