Over the past few years I have had the privilege of writing Emma's Story with her even while she lives in Australia and I in Canada. It's a true story and a disturbing one on many levels. But it is also just one of millions of such stories that are not being told and are being largely ignored by governments, the press, and even churches around the world.
Gary Wm. Myers
Sheep-Skinned Wolves: The Emma Fretton Story
by Emma Joy Fretton (Author), Gary Wm Myers (Author)
Emma excitedly enters primary school anticipating good things, but almost immediately is physically, sexually, and emotionally abused by her paedophile teacher. She's courageous enough to report the horrible abuse, but the school administration's response was frustrating and infuriating, making promises that were never kept and even lying to her face. Inexplicably, the school, a Christian school, allows the deviate teacher to continue terrifying and torturing Emma for several years. What that does to Emma is devastating on so many levels. How could this have happened in a Christian school?
Child sexual abuse is far more prevalent than most people would believe, affecting as many as 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. The effects are almost always life-long and very negative. In the Appendix, Gary, the co-author, describes these effects as well as signs to help identify when sexual abuse is occurring to your child. There is a wealth of other information on paedophilia learned from more than 6,500 blog posts over the past 12 years.
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