Don't Be Afraid To Tell

About the Book

In an ideal world, abuse would not happen to anyone. But, unfortunately, abuse is happening to more and more of us everyday. With this book, I would like to make children aware of the different types of abuse. Because it is unfortunate some children don’t even know they’re being abused. They really do believe what is happening to them is just part of life and that it is normal because it is all they know. I would like to also make children aware of how they can look after themselves by putting a stop to the abuse. Children are our future, and we need to protect them, but at the times that does not happen, they need to know how to protect themselves.

About the Author

I was born and raised in the north-east of England. I lived with my dad, mom, and younger brother. I had two stepsisters who went into foster care when I was young and a stepbrother who moved out when I was about eleven, I was subjected to neglect and physical and emotional abuse from both parents except on weekends and school holidays when I stayed with my grandma. It was there that I learned how life should be. Unfortunately, grandma passed away when I was thirteen. It was then that the sexual abuse started. Soon we were homeless and travelling the country on foot. We slept in train stations and buses; sometimes we broke into people’s sheds and slept there. We sometimes found people who would give us a bed for a couple of nights but for a price. I went into foster care around two months before my fifteenth birthday. I am now thirty-two years old, and I have been married for eleven years and have brains of my own. I have never been happier than I am now.