Slave Girl

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Sarah Forsyth. Slave Girl

Slave Girl

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Monday’s Child

Who Cares?

The Thing About Hope

A Place Called Mercy

A Gun to the Head

The Window

‘Prosty’

The Organisation of Evil

Gregor

A Rock in a Hard Place

Snuff

The Road to Freedom

Bearing Witness

The Lost Decade

Survivor

Afterword

Copyright

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Sarah Forsyth

with Tim Tate

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All sexual abuse causes deep and long-lasting damage to a child, but there’s something uniquely terrible about being hurt by someone who is meant to look after and love you – and it has a viciously corrosive effect on every other relationship. I’ve met hundreds of women who were molested by their fathers and each tells the same story of ending up blaming their mothers for failing to protect them. I’ve told Mum I believe her when she says that she never knew that Dad was abusing me, and I’ve reassured her that really it’s all in the past and long gone. But, in truth, what Dad did drove us apart for most of my life.

And why did he pick on me? He never touched my little sister and although he beat my brother – sometimes quite badly – he didn’t sexually abuse him either. What was it about me that made him do it? I always wanted to know – and one day Dad told me … in his own charming way, of course.

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