Behind Closed Doors (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 6 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Four children by her father.
Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse.
In March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of his daughter Elisabeth over 24 years, fathering seven children. The case shocked the world.
But just a month before, the story of Australia’s own house of horrors was emerging in a Victorian country town.
Under a blanket of suppression orders, a man in his late sixties was quietly arrested, charged – and later convicted – for the systematic rape, abuse and imprisonment of his only daughter, 'Katherine', which spanned decades. He fathered four of her children.
Until now, this shocking story has been buried under a complex legal web and Katherine’s insistence on silence so that she could rebuild her shattered life and protect her children.
In Behind Closed Doors, written with Sue Smethurst, Katherine breaks her silence and tells the story of how she survived – and how such degrading abuse went unnoticed for so long.
Customer Reviews
Frustrating & not well written
The 3 stars is because the story is not well written, but the story is also frustrating to read. I always feel enormous sympathy for anyone that has been sexually abused. I felt horrible reading about “Katherine”’s childhood, but reading about her being sexually abused by her father as an adult, I just can’t understand it. She compares her story to Elizabeth Fritzl, who was locked in a secret cellar & sexually abused by her father, but “Katherine” was not locked away at all. Once she was in her 20’s & having children by him, why wouldn’t she leave??? Time to be an adult & take care of herself & her own family. Staying with a sexually, emotionally & physically abusive father was a choice at this point. Money is no excuse. I just can’t understand it.