Cry Silent Tears: The heartbreaking survival story of a small mute boy who overcame unbearable suffering and found his voice again

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Joe Peters. Cry Silent Tears: The heartbreaking survival story of a small mute boy who overcame unbearable suffering and found his voice again

Cry Silent Tears

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Contents

Dedication

Chapter One Tug of War

Chapter Two A Bitter Battleground

Chapter Three Inferno

Chapter Four ‘Turn Him Off!’

Chapter Five Smelly Woof

Chapter Six Incarceration

Chapter Seven Mum’s New Boyfriend

Chapter Eight Rescued from the Cellar

Chapter Nine Starting School

Chapter Ten Being Groomed

Chapter Eleven The Movie Business

Chapter Twelve Learning to Speak Again

Chapter Thirteen A Bid for Freedom

Chapter Fourteen Betrayal and Capture

Chapter Fifteen In and out of Care

Chapter Sixteen Thieving for Mum

Chapter Seventeen Moving On

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

About the Publisher

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The heartbreaking survival story

of a small mute boy who

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Feeling left out as he watched them together at their anniversary party, and hoping to make Marie jealous on the night, William decided to seduce Lesley, who had probably had enough drinks to make her look like a promising prospect. Ultimately I guess he was hoping that when Marie experienced a rush of jealousy at seeing him paying attention to her friend, she would realize how much she loved him and would leave Frankie for him. It was the sort of game that could only end in tears, but then a lot of people fail to weigh up the consequences of their actions when they’re young and they’ve had a few drinks at a party. Perhaps the flirtation between William and Lesley started out as a relatively innocent bit of fumbling around on the dance floor but one thing soon led to another and a month or two later she found herself pregnant with me.

I don’t think Dad was ever the least bit in love with Mum because his affections were always directed towards Marie, even on the night of my conception, but he was a decent man and once he discovered she was pregnant he decided that marrying her was the honourable thing to do. He was a bit daunted to discover that she already had three kids from her first marriage, something she hadn’t mentioned when they met at the party, but Mum came from a Catholic family and he realized it would look doubly bad if he didn’t put a ring on her finger. The fact that he was willing to marry Lesley, however, did not change the way William still felt about Marie and his plan to kindle her interest by making her jealous was working. Marie had finally decided to give in to his advances, despite the fact that he was now officially engaged to be married to her friend, and was still her husband’s best friend. I wasn’t even out of the womb and already my family life was a potential war zone. Whatever was going to happen next it was unlikely that anything was going to go smoothly for any of them.

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