A Family Secret: My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell

My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell

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A Family Secret: My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell

By: Maureen Wood

Narrated by: Rachel Atkins

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‘Each time my mother laid a finger on me… it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other, destroyed me. It was the ultimate betrayal.’

Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. But Maureen’s world crumbled when her own mother started to abuse her too…

A Family Secret is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most, and how an innocent baby finally saved her.

Abuse

Child Abuse

Dysfunctional Families

Dysfunctional Relationships

Parenting & Families

Relationships

True Crime

Women

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A courageous lady to bring her abusers to justice. Giving hope to many victims suffering in silence.
The guiltier person in my mind was the Mother in which I use the term loosely.
Her stepdad was a predator making Maureen an easy target.
What confused with the brother they were once so close protecting her yet changed so dramatically I think encouraged largely by the mother I think once he had committed the awful act he too become the monster.