Sexual abuse survivor Donald DHaene knows he is one of the lucky ones. Legions of pedophile victims remain silent, afraid, isolated. They dont have to. Surviving sexual child abuse within a Jehovahs Witness family more than two decades ago, Donald DHaene and his siblings refused to remain silent about the horrors of sexual and emotional abuse. They told Elders of the Jehovahs Witnesses, the police, doctors, therapists and took their abusive perpetrator to court. How did that journey of sexual recovery unfold? DHaene has written a memoir of his experience which may benefit victims, rape survivors, professionals and educators. Fathers Touch details his fathers physical, sexual and emotional abuse of his siblings, his mother, and himself; his experience with faith, educators, sexual orientation, therapy and a trial. Begin then, one familys decade long journey of sexual exploitation. Four siblings, all victims of the same molester, suffer the manipulations of an abusive religious zealot whose lust for power and control robs them of their childhoods. Fathers Touch portrays much more than a somber male sexual abuse victims memoir. Emerging from his realm of victimhood, the soul of Donald DHaene draws us upward into the light. In his teens, Donald realized there would be no triumph without a struggle. His chilling portrayal reveals that child sexual abuse, particularly of boys, was and is yet today clumsily handled. Not only did this boys first male authority figure fail him mightily, but so did the various systems he trusted; the Jehovahs Witness faith, the Elders, the police and the courts. How was survival possible? In Fathers Touch, DHaenes narrative leaves readers grateful most of us grew up with Father Knows Best and equally grateful hes telling his very different and penetrating story of surviving male sexual abuse. Fathers Touch maps the breadth and depth of a fathers perversion, his childrens rebellion, the public revelation, and the familys struggle for acceptance and self-esteem. The author includes court transcripts regarding the sexual abuse case, plus comments from a father unfit. Here, a pedophile uses the Jehovahs Witness faith to subject his children to years of abuse. The Jehovahs Witnesses, the police, the courts and therapy all play their roles for good or ill as Donald DHaene recovers as a survivor of child sexual abuse.
Website: http://www.fatherstouch.com/