Don't Ever Tell : Kathy's Story

Harper Collins, Australia, 2006. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 256 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins, Australia, 2006. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Kathy O'Beirne's earliest memories are of being battered and sexually abused. Unable to confide in anyone about the beatings she regularly received from her father or about the boys who made her play dirty games, she became withdrawn and self-destructive, leading a psychiatrist to diagnose her as 'a child with a troublesome mind'. Aged only eight, Kathy was removed from the family home and incarcerated in a series of institutions. In the first, a reformatory school run by a holy order on behalf of the Irish State, she was raped by a visiting priest. When she tried to get help, she was transferred to a psychiatric hospital, where the abuse continued, along with the administration of drugs and electric shock treatment. At the age of twelve, Kathy was sent to a Magdalen laundry. these notorious workhouses operated in Ireland throughout the twentieth century and during that time thousands of young girls, some orphans, some pregnant and some considered 'at risk' in the community, were forced to slave in horrendous conditions. Locked away from the outside world, many of the girls were cruelly punished and sexually abused by the staff or lay visitors. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0732282179. ISBN/EAN: 9780732282172. Inventory No: 22020118.. 9780732282172