I had the opportunity recently to read for review a copy of Bea Todd’s Appalachian Child: The Chronicles of an Abused Child and Her Journey to Survival. As always, when I first agreed to review it, I planned on getting it done earlier than this, but life and work got in the way! Bea’s book…
The story is very familiar and has been widely covered by television news and documentary teams across the world; Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped aged 11 in 1991 and only returns in 2009 with her children. After missing multiple chances to catch her kidnapper, the father of her children, and his wife, they are picked…
Hurting Too Much (HTM) is the third book by Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington following on from Baby X and Little Victim. In a slowed-down real-life version of the TV drama Southland, Detective Sergeant Keeble (shortened to DS in the UK) continues with an account of just a small selection of the child protection cases…
In It’s OK to Tell, Lauren shares her story, in her own words, of being sexually abused by her family’s nanny and the story of what happened when she told the truth about what was happening. Lauren’s story is an important one, I think, for three reasons: 1. Lauren comes from a very well-to-do family….
Corey Feldman gave updated interviews to the media at the beginning of the British reality show Dancing on Ice. Since the article for The Sun may go behind a paywall at a later date, the Daily Mail’s version is here. – CBG
Now that we are in to 2012, I want to remind folks reading here that while CBK and I try to post news items and book/TV/movie reviews that are of interest to abuse survivors, we also openly admit that there is more out there than we could ever keep track of. Given that submissions of…
