Trapped : neglected, abused, betrayed /
by Wright, Della; Watson-Brown, Linda.
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BookPublisher: London : JB, 2022Description: x, 309 pages : 1 illustration (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781789465129 (pbk.) :; 1789465125 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 920 WRISubject(s): Wright, Della -- Childhood and youth | Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Great Britain -- Biography | Biography | Biography | Biography & non-fiction prose | Memoirs | Child abuseSummary: Della Wright is a campaigner for the rights of abuse victims after suffering a lifetime of betrayal. Left alone at home for the first time at only two years old by those tasked with her care, Della was let down first by social services. When known paedophile Terry Price entered her life when she was six, moving into her home, he would groom and sexually abuse her for the next five years. Even the sight of a little girl going to his probation meetings wasn't enough to make the authorities act. After a lifetime of violent relationships and mental health problems, Della eventually managed to put her childhood abuser behind bars for 22 years, a decade after first going to the police. He had changed his name multiple times to evade detection for his many crimes. As an ambassador for the Safeguarding Alliance, Della now campaigns to ensure offenders cannot slip through the net by giving themselves new identities.
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Della Wright is a campaigner for the rights of abuse victims after suffering a lifetime of betrayal. Left alone at home for the first time at only two years old by those tasked with her care, Della was let down first by social services. When known paedophile Terry Price entered her life when she was six, moving into her home, he would groom and sexually abuse her for the next five years. Even the sight of a little girl going to his probation meetings wasn't enough to make the authorities act. After a lifetime of violent relationships and mental health problems, Della eventually managed to put her childhood abuser behind bars for 22 years, a decade after first going to the police. He had changed his name multiple times to evade detection for his many crimes. As an ambassador for the Safeguarding Alliance, Della now campaigns to ensure offenders cannot slip through the net by giving themselves new identities.
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