Not My Child

by Patricia Crowley and Patricia Crowely

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385260989
• ISBN13: 9780385260985
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

we are not ashamed, but you should be

it must be nice to sit there from a place of security and criticize the testimony of a parent who experienced the ultimate violation of her responsibility to her child. to criticize the actions of investigators and prosecutors who were watching their own worst nightmares unfold in front of their own eyes. to judge human beings who were forced to hear unspeakable things about months and months of bizarre sexual abuse of children. you could never sit in a courtroom for months and months and hear testimony about your own child that chilled your bones and broke your heart. you could not live with the guilt of having trusted the care of your child to an unbelievably sick person. you could not survive hearing testimony about kelly stripping the kids naked, covering them with peanut butter, and instructing them to lick it off one another's bodies and then remember the time you found peanut butter behind your daughter's ears while giving her a bath one night all those months ago. ask my dad how he survived that experience. how dare you? it's people like you that pedophiles like kelly depend upon to not believe what they really did because it sounds too crazy. indeed you feel sorry for their ordeal at the hands of dozens of lying children and their maniacal parents who are so eager to believe that all 4-year-olds know how a tampon is used. you probably believe, as kelly's lawyers asserted at her trial, that "women don't do this sort of thing." i'm sure you are pleased to know that kelly is now free to do it all again. however, just you're wrong and i'm right, i suggest you never leave your children alone with her. i am a wee care kid. believe me, it all happened. despite everything kelly did to me, i am a survivor. despite everything that kelly did to us, we are not ashamed - but you should be.

touching

this book is really good and made me feel like i was in patricias place. i dont know what i would do in her situation. its so sad to hear stories like these, but it keeps us, the readers, more aware of our surroundings.