false<![CDATA[Broken]]>30604853`I was born and broken in Birkenhead. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed and ignored. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim - that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix - a work in progress. This is my story.`
Shy wasn`t meant to survive her childhood.
Her mother beat her so severely that Shy was deaf by her first day in school. Her stepsister thought nothing of pouring boiling water over her in punishment for the crime of wetting the bed. And virtually every day, from the age of four, Shy was raped by her stepfather, Stan. When she was ten she was attacked so viciously by the gang of dockworkers Stan had sold her to that she was left for dead in a field, her skull fractured. Shocking as it sounds, this was virtually normal life for Shy.
Today, Shy is the internationally respected chief advocate for Phoenix Survivors, the campaigning group she founded to fight for justice for victims of child sexual abuse. Alongside Sara Payne, she has worked tirelessly with politicians, social services, the legal system and the media for such measures as the UK`s adoption of Sarah`s Law.
Six years ago, her testimony secured the imprisonment of Stan and his associates for a catalogue of crimes against children. But it was only after a journey fraught with horror - stealing to survive on the streets of London, psychiatric care, prison and near-suicide that Shy emerged as the person she is today.
Her experiences challenge the limits of our understanding of the wickedness people are capable of but they also tell us something unique about goodness.3091392132008Brokentotal:28|5:10|4:13|3:2|2:3|1:0|28114571652falsefalseSat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009Thu Oct 09 06:23:10 -0700 2008Sat Jan 10 06:37:33 -0800 2009
'soul-raping torture'
These are the authors words describing her going against her abusers defense team many, many years after the fact. I'd use those words to describe almost every single experience of her entire childhood.
The cover of this book claims it to be "the most shoc...more...]]>
20falsefalseThu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009Thu Sep 03 16:45:44 -0700 2009Thu Sep 03 17:07:17 -0700 2009 Similar to 'A Child Called It' and others like it, 'Broken' is a rather hard story to stomach. On the bright side, there's a lot of details that were left vague, so it isn't just a bunch of graphic violence and ab...more...]]>
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BROKEN is a heart breaking account of YES one of the worst cases of child abuse I have ever read. I found myself horrified yet unable to stop turning the p...more...]]>
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30falsefalseFri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sun Apr 19 12:29:32 -0700 2009Sun Apr 19 12:37:02 -0700 2009 Thankfully it did ...more...]]>
20falsefalseMon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Sat Sep 19 22:56:24 -0700 2009Sat Sep 19 23:06:18 -0700 2009 i felt so sorry for her! abused at the age of 4, uneducated and has nothing to do with it, lost her whole family because of her freakin' step father and, omg i cant continue...
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It also shows you the strength of spirit that burns within. A book that teaches you how easily the disturbed of this world can infiltrate and how we should never EVER let someone elses judgement of a person a...more...]]>
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As a child I always felt safe because I had my mom. I can't begine to imagine the amount of fear this girl went throug...more...]]>
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