Australian Victim Of A Paedophile Ring Speaks Out
Australian Stacey Danson was prostituted by her mother from the age of three and running on the streets by the age of eleven. She has just released her true story.
Online, January 30, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Stacey Danson's mother prostituted her to earn a living wage from the age of three to service eminent members of her community, including the family doctor.
From the age of five she was a full-time prostitute deprived by her mother of the right to attend school, and from the age of ten was subjected to sado-masochistic rituals that have physically scarred her for life.
At the age of eleven, she ran away from home and began her life on the streets, adopting the nickname Sassy.
Fortunately for her, she was soon invited to join a gang of fourteen other children, taking up the place formally occupied by another child who had recently died. She was also helped by a streetwise adult who was sympathetic to her plight.
Now in her early fifties, Stacey regrets that fourteen of the fifteen children she roamed around with are no longer alive to read her account of their lives on the streets.
The book, which is entirely self-penned, is the delivery of a promise Ms. Danson made to a close friend called Jenny who has subsequently committed suicide.
Today, after additionally surviving a broken marriage, Stacey Danson lives an enjoyable if guarded life with her daughter, while both chronically ill and handicapped from the physical damage she suffered as a child.
'Empty Chairs' has just been published globally in paperback and all main e-book formats by Night Publishing to considerable acclaim for its writing style and the compelling and transcendent emotionality of its content, being proclaimed as doing for child abuse what Primo Levi did for the Holocaust: finding the humanity in one of the world's darkest continuing episodes.
Its title is evocative of all the empty chairs in Ms. Danson's life whose erstwhile occupants have disappeared, almot invariably through suicide.