Daddy’s Little Earner: A heartbreaking true story of a brave little girl's escape from violence

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Maria Landon. Daddy’s Little Earner: A heartbreaking true story of a brave little girl's escape from violence

Daddy’s. Little Earner

introduction

a glamorous couple

early home life

putting mum on the game

mum leaves

just the three of us

upsetting nanny

dad’s broken heart

reading to dad

toughening up

fostering and children’s homes

hockey sticks and playing hooky

the block

the first client

mum’s return

hardcore

meeting brian

the streets of king’s cross

facing the music

falling pregnant

entering the outside world

epilogue

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A heartbreaking true

story of a brave little girl’s

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Mum says he went out into the garden that day and cut a stick from a bush, choosing a particularly strong and bendy specimen. While the rest of us continued searching frantically for the dice he took a knife and methodically cut away all the leaves and twigs, leaving himself with a vicious-looking weapon which he swished through the air menacingly as if testing its suppleness. Mum knew what he was planning to do with it and pleaded with him not to but he took no notice. Dad never allowed anyone to talk him out of doing anything he had decided on.

When he was finally ready he ordered me to take down my knickers and laid me across his lap, holding me tightly and whipping me until I bled. I screamed with utter shock, completely devastated that my adored Dad could turn against me like this. The emotional betrayal was worse than the pain, although that was excruciating. I couldn’t sit down for a week afterwards. That was the first time he ever beat me, but from then on the stick stayed on display in the sitting room, ready to be used whenever he lost his temper.

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