Please Don't Hurt Me

There are some cases of child abuse that beggar belief.

Angela's is one such case. After her mother died in a car crash, she was brutally betrayed by her father and stepmother from the age of 7, suffering horrific violence at the hands of those who should have been protecting her.

Then Angela's innocence was stolen by a family feud - not once, but again and again.

It was a living hell, and this was just the beginning - Confused, ashamed and utterly alone, Angela's mind began to fall apart.

Ignored when she reached out for help, the little girl who had lost her mother quickly sank into a terrible cycle of bulimia, anorexia and self-harm.

Eventually, she would decide to attempt suicide. The escape of school ended when Angela was brutally raped and threatened by a teacher she had turned to for help.

Alone and confused, she was taken into a care home. But another man was waiting to abuse her there - Haunted by the trauma of her past, it wasn't until Angela thought of killing her own child that she sought professional help and began the lengthy healing process. After a string of failed relationships, she finally found love and began to triumph over all of the pain, moving on to help others as a paramedic.

Then history repeated itself - Angela's past rushed back to haunt her when she was assaulted by a colleague. A heart-rending story of despair and redemption, Please Don't Hurt Me is written by a woman who has finally left the past where it belongs.