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Predators' Paradise: A Journey of Survival and Resilience Kindle Edition
by Glen Fisher (Author), Kate Shayler (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

Predators’ Paradise is a raw, honest account of Glen’s life. He was born into violence and addiction. His mother was addicted to drugs and alcohol and had mental health issues as well as a propensity to violence with her husband and children. The father was arrested and the parents did not reunite after his release. Shunted between his parents and care homes, the violence and cruelty inflicted on Glen left him broken and untrusting. His determination to survive is remarkable.

In his world where no-one could be trusted or confided in, Glen was raped by a friend of his parents at age nine and so he spent most of his energy hiding from the rapist and his parents’ rages. His childhood was lived walking on eggshells.

Glen became a runaway and ended up in institutional ‘care.’ Sent back to his father by authorities, Glen was rejected and abandoned in the streets of Kings Cross.

Here predators of all descriptions pounced on the vulnerable child, even while he lived in a refuge that he believed would be safe. His innocence and health were destroyed by people he trusted because they were in positions of power. Police corruption was rife in the 1980s and protection rackets enabled paedophiles, drug dealers an...
https://www.amazon.com.au/Predators-Paradise-Journey-Survival-Resilience/dp/1925959074
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A Beautiful Boy: Ray's Story Kindle Edition
by Ray Leary (Author), Kate Shayler (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
Would you know if your child was being groomed by a paedophile?
This is a true story.

Here is a life that exemplifies the need for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Yet Ray, the man, is not completely broken and is a tireless advocate for men abused as children. How did such strength come out of such a dreadful childhood?

Born into poverty and violence Ray is forced to beg for food on the streets of inner Sydney. Sent to a children’s home at Kincumber when he is caught stealing, he learns more about abuse and violence. When he is expelled for bad behaviour he returns to his parents and is assigned a social worker to help and guide him as a Ward of the State.

The dark world his social worker takes him into, Sydney, Wollongong and Hunter Valley paedophile rings, is a trap for a boy without a proper home or schooling. He inhabits a world that no child should ever enter. He knows Frank Arkell, Robert Dolly Dunn and many high profile men in society who do not use their real names when they rent boys.

It took years for Ray to escape this life and to become who he really wanted to be – a married..
https://www.amazon.com.au/Beautiful-Boy-Rays-Story-ebook/dp/B01DTBHOYG

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