2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Listening to the voices of the children
This details the accounts of six children who were abused: Marie’s story illustrates how even a child not directly sexually abused can still live in constant fearLloyd explains that being rejected by his parents, he became vulnerable to other abusesSarah’s voice is that of a child seemingly living in a world of privilege but whose reality was that of shame and degradationRoy’s account is that of an isolated child witnessing extreme domestic violence and being subjected to emotional abuseJosie and Jake’s account is of siblings who lived with neglect and abuse