Neglected by her careless parents, Marianne turned to her
neighbour, the one person that she thought she could trust....
Eight year old Marianne, the eldest of five children, was neglected
by her slovenly mother and her violent alcoholic father. Uncared
for and unkempt she was rejected at school by her peers and
scarcely tolerated by her teachers. Only one person gave her the
affection she craved; a neighbour who seeing the vulnerable child
knew she was easy prey for his perverted desires. 'Little Lady' he
called her over the few months he groomed her. Less than twelve
months later she was caught in a trap of fear - if she talked she
would be punished. With no one to turn to she kept 'their secret'.
At thirteen she fell pregnant. Still too frightened to speak out
she refused to tell the social workers who the father was. Without
family support the teenager gave birth to a daughter in the
unmarried mother's home. Six weeks later the baby she had already
grown to love was taken away for adoption. Marianne returned home,
but the neighbour's abuse continued and a year later she was
pregnant again. This time her father literally tried to beat the
baby out of her but she failed to miscarry. Scared for her life and
that of her baby's she ran away from home carrying only a plastic
bag stuffed with her few possessions. Marianne who still missed her
first child desperately struggled to keep her second daughter. Two
months after the birth she realized that for the baby's sake she
would have to hand her over for adoption. Helpless is Marianne's
heartbreaking story as told the bestselling author of Don't Tell
Mummy.
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