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Trafficked Girl
- Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back.
- Narrated by: Una Byrne
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for prostitution', and suddenly Zoe's life was worse than it had ever been before.
Abused and ostracized by her mother, humiliated by her father’s sexual innuendos, physically assaulted and bullied by her eldest brother, even as a young child Zoe thought she deserved the desperately unhappy life she was living.
‘I’ve sharpened a knife for you,’ her mother told her the first time she noticed angry red wounds on her daughter’s arms. And when Zoe didn’t kill herself, her mother gave her whisky, which she drank in the hope that it would dull the miserable, aching loneliness of her life.
One day at school Zoe showed her teacher the livid bruises that were the result of her mother’s latest physical assault and within days she was taken into care.
Zoe had been at Denver House for just three weeks when an older girl asked if she’d like to go to a party, then took her to a house where there were just three men. Zoe was a virgin until that night, when two of the men raped her. Having returned to the residential unit in the early hours of the morning, when she told a member of staff what had happened to her, her social worker made a joke about it, then took her to get the morning-after pill.
For Zoe, the indifference of the staff at the residential unit seemed like further confirmation of what her mother had always told her – she was worthless. Before long, she realised that the only way to survive in the unit was to go to the ‘parties’ the older girls were paid to take her to, drink the drinks, smoke the cannabis and try to blank out what was done to her when she was abused, controlled and trafficked around the country.
No action was taken by the unit's staff or social workers when Zoe asked for their help, and without anyone to support or protect her, the horrific abuse continued for the next few years, even after she left the unit. But in her heart Zoe was always a fighter. This is the harrowing, yet uplifting story, of how she finally broke free of the abuse and neglect that destroyed her childhood and obtained justice for her years of suffering.
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- 18-08-18
All I expected and more. Fantastic book.
A very easy read but both interesting and enjoyable. If you enjoy a simple read but informative then this is for you.
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- Amy
- 09-05-22
What a woman!
Powerful/ relatable and inspiring!
Would love a conversation with this woman.
Worth a listen/ read, I love survival stories and this is the one I related to the most and I felt inspired by so many words. Awesome. xx
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- Anne Dudley
- 11-06-22
Very interesting but disturbing
What a disturbing story of how this little girl was let down by the authorities. I have listened to a number of books by women who have suffered at the hands of police and social workers and I just hope now that these people have learnt from all their mistakes in the past. I am so glad that Zoe realized after reading her files that all what happened to her was not her fault and at last she can have peace.
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- Joan Janvier
- 04-09-18
Amazing read.
Brilliant true story. Thoroughly enjoyed this book and couldn't stop listening! Would definitely recommend to all. This person is amazing and I admire her strength and determination.
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- Beckie
- 21-07-18
Absolutely a brave soul
Such a sad, worrisome story but amazingly brave!
Makes you reflect, cry and really travel through her emotions
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- Dee Morrant
- 05-09-21
A hard listen but worth it..
Was hard to listen at times but glad I listened the the end, she’s come such a long way and it’s such an inspiration to hear how she’s trying to pull herself up. The narrator for this book is probably one of the best I’ve heard since I started to listen to online books.
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- Little Red
- 07-03-19
A truly unbelievable story of true strength
I'm going to be honest about this book.. I really didn't believe what I was hearing for half the book and that the care system could have failed a young and vulnerable girl so much after everything she'd already been through but sadly this still happens to this very day.
I truly admire this ladies strength and courage after everything she's been through and hope that she continues to have a bright future.
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- Emma Shaw
- 23-11-22
Such as shocking story.
Zoe, is such an amazing person who fought in the most difficult of circumstances.
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- PQA Taunton
- 25-07-23
Heartbreaking and uplifting
What a women! I am in owe of her and want to thank her for sharing her story.
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- M H.
- 04-09-20
Tragic Story Spoilt by Pretentious Language
This is a truly harrowing story and I wish Zoe every bit of love, luck and success as she recovers from her dreadful past and rebuilds her life.
However, I feel the book is spoilt by the use of over-intelligent phrasing and vocabulary which misrepresents Zoe and gives a very genuine story a very hollow ring. I wish this book had been written in Zoe’s own words and not in the co-author’s highfalutin and pretentious language. Furthermore, to use one of these words from the book, this issue is ‘exacerbated’ by the choice of narrator, where the use of a middle class female voice, also does little to represent the real Zoe.
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