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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about You Can't Hide , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Mar 18, Fiona MacDonald rated it really liked it Shelves: An absolute rollercoaster of a book. Some parts had me in tears, other parts had me so very angry. Tina Renton is such a brave person to have stood up and got her stepfather jailed for sexual abuse after 20 long years despite having no support from her mother or her brothers.
I think she is an absolute inspiration. Jan 26, Joanne Mcneill rated it really liked it. Very Harrowing but eventually uplifting story my heart goes out to Tina Renton but I think a lot of good will come from the telling of her story x. Jun 24, Prashant Singh rated it it was amazing Shelves: One book which is all about seeing the blatant struggles of a child traveling with her like a shadow to her teens and then to her middle age!
Its a beautiful book which has inspired millions and giving a voice of courage to all the survivors aka winners of this terrible fate. Please read this book. Even being a One book which is all about seeing the blatant struggles of a child traveling with her like a shadow to her teens and then to her middle age! Even being a strong fiction fan, this book pulled me towards it like a magnet! Apr 06, Sahara rated it really liked it.
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book is a journey of a child enduring child abuse and how that shaped her mentality as a teenager and a young mother. Having endured sexual abuse from a young age, Tina Renton writes how this affected her relationships later on as a teenager experiencing intimacy for the first time.
Throughout her childhood, she struggles to seek acceptance and love from her mother and goes into great lengths to find any semblance of affection. Her mother however, is more interested in keeping her family's This book is a journey of a child enduring child abuse and how that shaped her mentality as a teenager and a young mother. Her mother however, is more interested in keeping her family's financial well-being afloat rather than the sanctuary of her only daughter. As an adult, with kids of her own, Renton struggles to find the closure that she desires and finds herself keeping silent about being a victim of sexual abuse.
In the end however, Renton uses her wits as well as her law degree to put her perpetrator behind bars. This is a story about how a voiceless victim found courage to speak out against her abuser, seek justice and finally find the closure she longed for all those years ago. Aug 17, Zoe rated it really liked it. This item will be sent through the Global Shipping Programme and includes international tracking.
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I was targeted, raped and abused by a gang of sadistic men. Engy rated it really liked it Aug 29, Gradually as she becomes as an adult life gets worse as she gets into bad relationships and finds anyway she can to deal with the pain including self harming. Don't You Love Your Daddy? This is my true story of how I never gave up on hope and happiness. From the beginning they reassured her that a prosecution was possible, and the attacker was arrested. See the seller's listing for full details.
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Usually when you report a crime, you expect to be believed. Victims of burglary do not have to prove that they have been burgled or to justify their behaviour before the burglary. With rape and sexual assault allegations, victims still find themselves subjected to hostile questioning. Tina Renton describes giving evidence against her stepfather, whom she accused of raping and assaulting her multiple times during her childhood, as the "most difficult thing I have ever done". She recalls the day in her book You Can't Hide , published earlier this year, which details the childhood abuse and her decision later to train as a lawyer and take her stepfather to court.
Part of her case rested on her testimony that she told her mother about the abuse when she was 14, but her mother chose to ignore her. The defence lawyer, Mr Brown, "went straight for the jugular", she writes. It was really tough, but I knew I had to continue to deny that I was lying and to continue being as truthful as I was. They were constantly trying to catch me out. They would go over things, over and over again, trying to trip me up," she says. There were a couple of times when I got so upset I couldn't breathe, and the judge called for an adjournment.
The process of telling a crowded court what had happened to her was profoundly upsetting, even without the attempts of the defence barrister to undermine her. You don't have to bring back the memories — they don't go away — but it is difficult to talk about them because of the shame you feel as a victim. Renton still has nightmares about her time in the witness box. Despite the best efforts of the defence team, the jury believed her. Her stepfather, David Moore, was found guilty of six counts of indecent assault, three counts of committing gross indecency with a child and three counts of rape.
In July he was sentenced to 14 years. However traumatic her court experience, Renton considers herself very fortunate that the process resulted in a conviction. I am one of the lucky ones. The system did not fail me; it protected me.
My story shouldn't be so unique, but the statistics are awful. However, this figure is controversial, and seen as unnecessarily discouraging for victims who might be thinking about coming forward.
More recent analysis of the figures, based on a more usual definition of conviction rate the proportion of cases prosecuted in the courts , suggests that Kate Smith whose real name cannot be revealed for legal reasons was extremely disturbed by similarities between the way Andrade was treated and her own experience, when she pressed charges against someone she claimed had abused her dozens of times as a child.
The defendant was found not guilty, so it is difficult to publish many details of Smith's allegations, but she, too, says she was repeatedly told in court that she was not telling the truth. Even if there had been a guilty verdict, she says, she would still have found the cross-examination humiliating and needlessly gruelling. She was so angry that she wrote to May, calling on her to review the way that women who report rape and sexual assault are treated, "to ensure that the victims are not subjected to this tirade of abuse throughout the trials.
Without the support of my fantastic partner, friends… I, too, could have been another Frances Andrade, taking my own life. Victims should not be broken in order to get a conviction or even a not guilty verdict… You leave a piece of you behind in the courtroom.