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I'm Fine

A True Story of Trust, Betrayal and Criminal Exploitation

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I'm Fine

By: Richard Hall
Narrated by: Sam Bradley
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In 2024, a gay youth leader was jailed for 22 years. One of his victims tells why it took him two decades to call the police.

In 1996, at the age of fourteen, Richard Hall met a man who changed his life. Two and half decades later, he called the police. As a result, the man was jailed for twenty-two years.

This is the story of what came before the police: how a teenage boy who had been hounded at school because he was gay walked into a world where he thought he would be safe, but which he was too inexperienced to navigate. In his naïvety, he thought what happened next was normal, or somehow his fault.

In a vivid, compellingly account, Hall recreates with unnerving frankness – and with surprising bursts of humour – the year in his childhood when the attention of older admirers went to his head, with lasting consequences for the rest of his life.

I'm Fine is not just the intensely moving story of one mixed-up boy's private hell. It also stands as a powerful warning about predators operating with the impunity conferred on them by 'community' status.

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This is a really important book to read. The author's experiences are a clear call that if you have been groomed and abused you are not alone. A highly emotional book, with touches of dark humour that anyone who has been through something this dark will definitely relate to.

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A true story that is no surprise and these predators still target young and vulnerable young gay men. Chicken hawks are still part of the commercial gay scene. I have heard many similar stories and have been involved in many child protection investigations. Unfortunately many chickens go down the road of prostitution, drug addiction and deaths by suicide. Perceived perception is these young boys were all rent boys. These predators have to routed outof the gay scene. Females have the “Angela” programme but needs Following up by designis

An honest account of an all to prevalent problem

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