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The Unbreakable Child: A Memoir About Forgiving The Unforgivable (2012)

by Kim Michele Richardson(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0615714692 (ISBN13: 9780615714691)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Richardson

review 1: A story about forgiving the unforgivable is a riveting journey inside the secretive underbelly of the St. Thomas/Saint Vincent Orphan Asylum in rural Kentucky. It is an unbelievable confrontation of the institutionalized physical and emotional abuse suffered by countless orphans at the hands of Catholic clergy over these last decades. It also documents the historic United States lawsuit and first-ever settlement paid by Roman Catholic nuns in the United States as recompense for decades of brutal institutional abuse of the author, her sisters and forty-two other children. It is hard to comprehend how anyone, especially those in a religious profession, can be abusive to innocent children. My heart goes out to any child who has been exposed to abuse in any ... moreform.
review 2: I received this book in a Goodreads first reads giveaway. This book is an account of Kim Richardson's life in a Kentucky Catholic Orphanage during the 1960's and later in the book the lawsuit against the catholic church for abuses. It was difficult to read of the various abuses Kim suffered as a child and it must have taken alot of strength to write about it. Ultimately it's a story of forgiveness and faith. Definitely the kind of book that sticks with you afterwards. less

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