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Innocent

The True Story of Siblings Struggling to Survive

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Innocent

By: Cathy Glass
Narrated by: Denica Fairman
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Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries.

Aneta and Filip, the children’s parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains she is innocent of harming them, while Filip appears bewildered and out of his depth. It’s true the family has never come to the attention of the social services before and little Kit and Molly appear to have been well looked after, but Kit has a broken arm and bruises on his face. Could it be they were a result of a genuine accident as Aneta is claiming?

Both children become sick with a mysterious illness while, experienced foster carer, Cathy, is looking after them. Very worried, she asks for more hospital tests to be done. They’ve already had a lot. When Cathy’s daughter, Lucy, becomes ill too she believes she has found the cause of Kit and Molly’s illness and the parents aren’t to blame. However, nothing could be further from the truth and what comes to light is far more sinister and shocking.

©2019 Cathy Glass (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Abuse Child Abuse Dysfunctional Families Dysfunctional Relationships Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences Adoption
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I listened to 6 books by Cathy Glass and this is yet another beautifully written by Cathy and beautifully narrated by Denica! I couldn’t stop listening! Thank you Cathy for sharing your experiences as a foster career! You truly are amazing!

Another amazing read

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I just feel very uneasy about those parents truly putting their children first in the future. Clearly their last actions were about them and not at all in the best interests of their children.

Sadly not necessarily the best outcome.

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Another fantastic and emotional book by Cathy Glass. It is definitely worth listening to, as are all her books.

Another fantastic book!

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In this story whilst Cathy was intuitive and knowledgable in many ways, in other ways she was not. I can understand why the mother was often icy towards Cathy. No doubt she could see how much her children loved Cathy, she could see the bonds growing, and no doubt Molly would often talk about how great they thought Cathy was. Kit no doubt would say “Cathy” repeatedly. Molly may had also mentioned that Kit had often said Cathy was his mother, and how Molly felt she was like a second mother. Of course this would had been extremely upsetting and threatening for Anita. How Cathy did not think of such possibilities is beyond me, instead she seemed to think the parents should had been full of gratitude towards her even though for a long time Cathy had their children and they were missing watching them grow up, knowing Cathy had their children’s love full time instead of them, wondering what they may be learning from Cathy, and a multitude of other things! The most worrying thing was that no one in the welfare system worked out the obvious sooner, especially when Molly had spoke about how much her mother loved hospitals, that was a huge red flag! I had worked out very early in the book that the mother probably had Munchausen Syndrome or Munchausen by proxy. Yet all the experts with years of experience took so long to work this out. Not only might’ve the mother killed her children, but if this had of happened the system would had been just as much to blame for not working out the obvious, especially given that they either knew of this disorder or had previous experience with it! As a survivor of the child welfare system it really annoyed me that Cathy had assumed the parents would never get their children back and that she intended to adopt them as her own when that happened. Still despite all of this I do like how sweet and loving Cathy seems to be towards the children in her care, this is what every child needs! She also seems to have the correct level of communication, firmness, wisdom, guidance, tolerance, patience, and perseverance, that children in care also need. From reading Cathy’s books I can also see how different the welfare system is in her country, some things seem better and others seem worse. I really hope one day these systems will listen and learn from the real “experts”, being those with actual life experience of these systems. No one better knows what would had helped them best! When these systems listen and learn from those with actual experience, only then will the child welfare systems ever greatly improve, helping children more and damaging children less.

The should had worked out the obvious sooner……

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What a sad ending, although can't be changed because it's a true story. I feel awful for Cathy, the parents could have been more grateful.

Another fantastic story written by Cathy Glass.

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Another amazing book by Cathy Glass I really enjoy reading her books how she can get those children to learn to trust her to open up is totally amazing but her books can also be heart breaking what those poor children have gone through I could so easily want to grab the parents by the throat well done Cathy you are an amazing person .

Another Amazing Book

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Another great read from Cathy Glass and narration by Daneca. Didn’t like how this one ended as I hope the children are safe and well.

Another great read from Cathy Glass

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