A true story of abuse. Three sisters. A shattered Irish childhood.Joyce, June and Paula Kavanagh were three sisters born to a family of ten in Ballyfermot, Dublin in the 1960s. Their father abused all three of them in the family home throughout their childhood. In 1989, the sisters made the brave decision to bring charges against their father and, in 1990, the state took a successful case against him. He was convicted and imprisoned.Click, Click is...

Why Go Back? 7 Steps to Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse provides comprehensive information on the numerous impacts of abuse and a number of steps to overcome them. It is written to help other victims of abuse and all those who support them. We are not experts in anything other than our own lives. The information contained within this book is based on our own experiences of abuse and what we found helped us.The book is divided into three sections with each one covering a particu...

‘The Grip of Childhood Sexual Abuse’ contains over thirty years of what we did to recover from the impacts of our abuse.We are three sisters who were sexually abused by our father from toddlers fight through to our teenage years. In 1990, our father received a prison sentence of 7 years ensuring our case changed the statute of limitations in cases of historical sexual abuse in Ireland.The Grip of Childhood Sexual Abuse' tells the story of our healing journey to ove...

Karen McConnel earned a B.A. from the University of Toledo and her M.S.W. from the University of Alabama. She developed and coordinated a Therapeutic Foster Care Program and was Executive Director of a community-based agency providing services for runaway and homeless youth. Eileen Brand is a journalist and author whose work has been published in newspapers and journals in the US.

He was my religious teacher. I should have been able to trust him. But he made me do unspeakable things…At seven years old, Nabila Sharma began her lessons at the mosque as every good Muslim girl does. But from the minute she looked up at her Imam, the man who held her spiritual future in his hands, she knew something was wrong.Over the next five years Nabila’s life became unbearable. While she was behind the doors of the mosque, the most sacred of places, the Imam brutally...

Little Timmy is a shy, insecure, nine-year-old boy when he meets Brian Gunther, a third-grade teacher in his elementary school. Nothing awaits him at home except a physically and mentally abusive mother and an absentee father. But when Timmy appears at school one day sporting bruises and a fat lip, everything changes between Mr. Gunther and him.As Mr. Gunther showers Timmy with affection and gifts, he becomes the friend and male role model Timmy has never had in his life. The teach...

The heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness.Peter was just a toddler when his mother tragically died after trying to abort a child they simply couldn't support.When his father swiftly replaced her with his mistress, Peter made the mistake of calling her 'Mummy'. Dragged outside, trampled on and shouted at, Peter never made that mistake again.Peter tried time and time again to flee the ter...

'If you say anything to your mother, I'll tell her it was your brother. And then he'll be locked away in prison forever because of you.'Zara's stepfather, Hassan, mercilessly bullied her brother and sister. But at just seven years old Zara knew she could never tell anyone about what Hassan was doing to her.For the next nine years, she kept the terrible secret, until eventually she found the courage to fight back. But was she too late to save the people she loved?

Paul Mason's father was a policeman. He was also a member of a sadistic paedophile ring. He would keep Paul locked up and naked in a tiny cupboard under the stairs of their home before sexually abusing him. This cycle of abuse continued for several years and also affected his brother. The cupboard became a horrific prison where fear and terror filled his every moment.The Cupboard Under the Stairs is a story of abuse at the mercy of adults whom Paul should have been able to...

'Why did you leave me? Why did you get messed up with all of those drugs? Why did you kill my brother and sister? Didn't you love us enough?'Nikkia Roberson has been asking these questions for most of her life. But how else do you cope when your mentally ill mother has killed your little brother and sister by scalding them with boiling water?This is a harrowing true story of how one little girl endured the most tragic of childhoods. But it's also the ultimate tale ...

Carla and her husband Dean fought for custody of Dean's 2 children, Annie and Peter, following the news that they were living with their mother and a paedophile. The children had been damaged beyond repair following their treatment and what ensued was a testing time rebuilding the lives of 2 children and a court battle that would take 2 years to get through. Following the lengthy residency battle, they hoped that all their troubles were over, however, their troubles were only just beginnin...

The one person who was meant to protect and love me above all else was the one person who refused to give it; who excelled at dishing out brutal punishments without fear of reprisals just for the fun of it.The sky was the limit when it came to my fathers demonic designs in ways to maltreat myself and my sister - bible, cooking utensils, vacuum cleaners and slippers were the regular tools of choice but whn he got bored Derek would resort to highly imaginative terror inducing techniq...