Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child

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Seth Meyers jokes his wifeAlexi Ashe was 'so happy' Jennifer Lawrence confessed her years-long crush on him It’s an unusual situation, because when Cathy is handed the forms by Social Services that should contain all of his information, everything is blank except for his name and age. According to those papers, this boy has no past. It turns out that Tayo was kidnapped from his home in Nigeria, where he lived with his loving father. He was illegally brought to the UK by his mother, a prostitute that heavily relies on drugs and alcohol. No Place Like Home Roman Kemp breaks down in tears as he admits he worries that people think he uses the suicide of his friend Joe Lyons to 'make himself more famous'

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Seeing as Cathy is an experienced foster carer, Social Services pressures her to take on Jodie. Cathy has reservations but nevertheless agrees. When Jodie first arrives, it is absolute chaos. She does everything and anything to act out and cause trouble, like covering herself in blood. A Traumatic Past Other times, children will be rehabilitated with their parents and that can feel good too. I had one little boy, Tayo, whose lovely father eventually found him after he’d been brought over from Nigeria to the UK by his mother, where he’d lived illegally and in secret for five years in the most appalling conditions. Even now, 50 foster children and 23 years later, Cathy admits that she still wells up when she sees the suitcases of a child who has been staying with her waiting in her hall. Writing was so-so... I think that there are better stories of the realities of being a foster parent. This felt more like "LOOK AT ALL THESE TERRIBLE THINGS! LOOK HOW BAD THE SYSTEM IS! LOOK HOW DAMAGED THESE CHILDREN ARE!" We will also start to learn and start to understand why Jodi is acting the way that she does. The reason(s) are so horrible that I had to stop reading and just take some time to digest what I just read. There were some parts that I had to literally re-read to see if I read it correctly.

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On the downside, Glass made it almost too clear her strong feelings of distaste for one of the individuals involved in the legal process. I understand her negativity, but I felt the portrayal of those feelings was at times a bit over the top, and it became distracting. Be forewarned, you must be strong and capable of getting through the descriptions of the abuse (by Jodie herself) and ready to move on past them until the next disturbing detail comes to play. I'm pretty sure if I had not been reading this in my classroom amongst my students during silent reading time, I would have been bawling my eyes out from the way the book ended (not the "Progress" epilogue, but the last bit of the last chapter). You'll see! Because of her progress (and tightening budgets) the social services decided she was well enough to live with a foster family and found one in the area so she could continue at the same school and maintain friendships. This came as something of a surprise to my family and me. We were allowed to phone her a few times a year and send Christmas and Birthday cards. She could phone us too. However, we were not permitted to visit her as it was felt it would be confusing for Jodie to have two families. In addition to the success that Cathy Glass has known for the foster care related memoirs she has written, she has also published three novels. The first was titled: “The Girl in the Mirror”, a story about a young woman who uncovers a terrible family secret that was buried long ago. The other two titles are: “My Dad’s A Policeman” and “Run Mummy Run”. Like all of the books by Glass, these novels are based on true stories. Karren Brady's daughter is pregnant! Businesswoman, 54, is set to become a grandma asSophia Peschisolido, 25, announces she's expecting first childLove Island star Tasha Ghouri strips nude with just a long blonde braid to cover her modesty in a slew of sizzling Rapunzel-inspired snaps This first best-selling book by Cathy Glass is one that will leave you with conflicting emotions. I found myself angry and sad at the same time. Damaged is a book about an 8-year-old girl named Jodie. It is hard to believe that someone so young could already be so violent and aggressive, but Jodie is, and it’s left her with no other foster families to turn to. Cathy Glass is her last hope.

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Would-be foster carers should not be put off by cases like Jodie’s, believes Cathy. ‘Obviously you never quite know what baggage a child will come with, but where it’s known to be bad, social workers place children with more experienced carers.’ TOWIE star Bobby Norris 'suffers head injuries after being mown down by a motorbike as he was crossing the road' Kylie Jenner's pinup pal Anastasia 'Stassie' Karanikolaou flashes the flesh in bra top as she holds hands with beau Jaden Hossler at Halloween party There are so many questions you’ll be asking yourself by the time you’re done reading this book, but the biggest one is this: why would a mother believe that giving away her new-born child is her only option? That’s what Cathy Glass is about to find out in this best book. Little baby Harrison is left in Cathy’s care at only one day old.Emmerdale's Eric Pollard reveals he is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in heartbreaking scenes as he bravely confides in Mandy Dingle Paris Hilton shows off her impressively toned legs in a bright pink dress while dressing up as Princess Peach for Halloween I don't know if you're aware, but abilities such as reading or writing can only be correctly developed after a certain age because that's when the brain reaches the maturity needed. It's also true that others, like language, if not developed in a critical period, cause the brain to interpret this ability as "unnecessary" and it atrophies the area responsible for it. The latest was exactly what happened to Jodie. Her development was compromise; not impossible to reach but extremely hard. But here's what is still to be revealed: the perpetrators' stories. We might be talking about domestic abuse or rape or war crimes, but there's nothing from them ever. Ever. Probably on the very reasonable grounds that they're all nauseating lowlifes who should be given rat poison rather than a pen and paper, and also that they'll lie and try to make out it was all because of their own painful childhoods or that the rape and the war crime was consensual. The depraved are either smart enough to know they really shouldn't tell the truth, or stupid enough not to be able to anyway. So it seems that at present we believe that victims always tell the truth and perpetrators always lie. Can this be true? Probably not, but I think we'll have to live with that for a long time yet. I doubt that we'll ever get the perpetrator's stories. Why would we want to? Because no man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; because I am involved in mankind. (That last bit's by John Donne, not me!)