The Unbreakable Child
Kim Michele Richardson
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· 14 ratings · 218 pages · Published: 01 Apr 2009
Asylum with only the clothes on her back and her treasured scarab bracelet hidden in
her sock - hidden for fear that the nuns would take it away from her. They had already
taken so much.
Among the scant physical collections of her childhood, Kim carried the physical and
mental scars of countless beatings and abuse that began with her arrival to the
orphanage as an infant until her release at the age of twelve. It wasn't until thirty years
later that Kim would relive her hellish childhood in the form of a landmark lawsuit that
involved forty-four former orphans.
Kim's riveting story seamlessly toggles back and forth between her gut wrenching
experiences and the court case that resulted in the first-ever monetary settlement
paid by Roman Catholic nuns in the United States as compensation for decades
of institutional abuse at an orphanage.
Despite Kim's long journey of pain and suffering, this is not a book about hatred or revenge, but an inspiring
story of a girl who would not be broken, and forgiving the unforgivable.
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