Too Scared to Tell

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Cathy Glass. Too Scared to Tell

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Acknowledgements

Epigraph

Contents

Being Watched

Anxious

Protecting Oskar

Stressed and Tense

You Know Those Men?

Wary

Very Concerned

Preoccupied

A Strange Reunion

Contact

Not Safe

Mr Nowak

Review

Distraught

They Made Me

Questioned by the Police

Sickening

Family

Therapy

Family

Good and Bad News

Adoption

Photographs

Break My Heart

Unsettled

Court Case

Retiring?

Leaving

Unexpected News

Suggested topics for reading-group discussion

Praise for Cathy Glass

About the Publisher

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been sexually abused never tell.

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‘No,’ he said, but I could tell from his expression that he did and also that he was worried, if not scared, by their presence.

‘You’re safe with me,’ I said, but before I started the engine I pressed the central locking system, so none of the doors could be opened from the outside. I wasn’t being paranoid; I had no idea who those men were, why they were taking such an interest in us or why Oskar should be frightened of them. Had he come from a large extended family, I might have thought they were part of his family and wanted to see where he was being taken. It had happened to me before, just as it’s happened to other carers: a child is placed, the carer’s address is purposely withheld and then a family member follows the foster carer home on the school run. However, as far as I knew at that point, Oskar only had his mother, and she wasn’t in the country. Perhaps they were some of Oskar’s ‘uncles’, but then why had he denied knowing them? I couldn’t begin to guess who they were.

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