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Children of Jericho: A Small Town's Nightmare Up Close and Personal

Children of Jericho: A Small Town's Nightmare Up Close and Personal

Healy, Francie

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1738778061
ISBN13: 9781738778065
Publisher: Healy Publications
Published: Apr 10 2025
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Children of Jericho is the true story of three small children whose halting, strange stories blew open a shocking case of multi-generational child sexual abuse in Prescott, Ontario, Canada, up to the early 1990s. It is told from my perspective as a professional journalist, writer, and foster mother. When we invited these three damaged children into our family, we had no idea what we were getting into or the impact it would have on all of us.The children, ages 3, 5 and 7, arrived at our house in a whirlwind. They threw things. They cried. They screamed. They fought each other over the smallest scraps of food. They weren't wearing diapers, and they were incontinent. The three-year-old grunted rather than talked. The other two were difficult to understand. Somehow we managed, one day at a time, to soothe them, to listen to them, to teach them how to eat, how to play. And little by little, as we earned their trust, they began to tell us what had happened to them. They talked about monsters, about people wearing hoods, about being forced to drink blood, about dead bodies in a graveyard. We kept listening, not outwardly reacting. Night after night I kept detailed notes so I could make sense of what we were hearing, and I shared them with the social workers.

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