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    Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back.
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    Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back.

    Written by Zoe Patterson and Jane Smith

    Narrated by Una Byrne

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9780008148058
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    Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back.
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    Zoe Patterson

    Zoe Patterson is 29 and a qualified personal trainer. Having discovered that she has a natural talent for boxing, Zoe is about to start training as a boxing coach in the hope of being able to help other women who have been disadvantaged in some way to improve their self-esteem and create positive futures for themselves.

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      Zoe was not guilty of anything that happened to her, but I can't ignore the feeling that she was responsible for some of it, but it's complicated at the same time because it's not her fault that she was responsible for some of her choices. She needed help, clearly. The problem is that the author paints certain situations as something someone else did to her instead of something she did to herself, because she was not in her right mind. For instance, after everything she went through she says she was "very naive" at 22 yo. She wasnt naive, but she was sick and in need of help. Earlier in her life after being abused after accepting lifts while drunk... She claims she was traumatized by the experiences , but how come she didn't get traumatized of accepting lifts to begin with? It's not like those men were forcing her into their cars, she'd be fine if just said "no". After reading her story, I dont think she would have said no even if she was sober. It wasnt the drink's fault, not fully. Zoe was in search of friends, family and love, she could not say "no" because, in her mind, someone doing anything for her or offering to take her somewhere was, in her twisted mind, a show of affection and she desperately wanted affection, any affection. It doesn't seem, however, that the author, Zoe herself, realizes that. I guess there was still a long way ahead of her when she wrote this. I truly hope she's better now. Heartbreaking story her Mother is a monster.