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 Crying In The Dark - Shane Dunphy
 Crying In The Dark - Shane Dunphy ... stories...Bobby and Micky, six and four, controlled from beyond the grave by their evil father ...Mina, seventeen, who has Downs Syndrome, desperate to be like everyone else, falling into the hands of men who abuse her trust ...Sylvie, a fourteen-year-old mother being pimped by her father ...Twins Larry and Francey, ten, scarcely human after an upbringing of savage and unimaginable cruelty ...One inspiring account of how one man got to know these wounded children and tried to give them hope - and a future.Newest Review: ... Mina a seventeen year old with Downs Syndrome who keeps running away from her overprotective parents and ten year old twins ... more ... Francey and Larry who have been so severely abused that they behave in an almost feral way. Shane also bumps into a girl he used to work with called Sylvie who is thirteen. Her future had looked bright when her long lost father had rescued her from foster care but we learn that he regularly abused her, impregnated her and forced her to prostitute herself to support his drinking.
Dunphy certainly does not shy away from taboo subjects in this book. Subjects covered include child prostitution, teenage motherhood, the ri...more |
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Crying In The Dark - Shane Dunphy: A Heartbreaking Read (713 words)
by - written on 24/02/08 (Very useful, 418 readings)
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This book tells the story of children in the child protection system in the Republic of Ireland and is written by Shane Dunphy, a child protection worker. I picked this book up because I had enjoyed similar books in the past, also I thought that social workers have had a lot of bad press and it would be nice to have an insight into the type of job that they do. The book opens with Shane working with young offenders but as he feels out of his depth here, he takes a job at Dunleavy House. His job is that of an outreach worker for children with special needs who are in severe crisis and are unmanagable by their caregivers. The organisation is in the ... Read the complete review
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