Trafficked Girl Trafficked Girl

Trafficked Girl

Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. My Story of Fighting Back.

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Publisher Description

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.

About the author

Jane Smith is a ghostwriter and author of more than 30 published books, including numerous Sunday Times top ten bestsellers.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2018
22 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
HarperElement
SELLER
HarperCollins Australia Pty Limited
SIZE
1.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Cdogmcfrog ,

Poor girl

Poor Zoe, well written and so unfortunately moving.. keep up the good work

Nlventu ,

Trafficked girl - abused, abandoned, exploited

Zoe amazes me with her determination to be better than the people that failed her. This story show that a system designed protect kids in need of love often fails them and I hope that this story opens up the eyes of people that judge kids in care. As a kid that was in care I was lucky but still I bare the scares of a broken system. Kids deserve more and any ‘bad’ behaviours are there way to survive and survive is what Zoe has done.

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