My Father Was a Pedophile

Bella Randall

May 2016 · Xlibris Corporation

About this ebook

This is the story of rape, incest, broken bones, blackened eyes and murder. Murder, you gasp! Yes, the murder of innocence of three children in North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. To say it was a dysfunctional family is much too kind. But it has been said that a young child remains dependent, even devoted, to the parents who brutalize him or her because they are the only parents and the only experience the child knows. I am telling only my story. My sister and brother have a story that is only theirs to tell. Now that my story is finally told, I hope I will be able to put it to rest at last. If I can use what happened to me to help others, that is the biggest lesson I have learned. Maybe my suffering can be used to save other children and women. That is my plan.

Ratings and reviews

Awful read. Awfully written. Whilst i'm sympathetic to what was endured, this was a struggle to get through. Lack of any detail to anything, constantly referring to main characters as thier relation (momma, daddy, stepmother, my husband, my child) instead of a name is irritating at best and didnt feel i got to know the author at all. Waste of money.

this book is written like a summary of events which cannot be appreciated fully without more detail. I felt like a therapist listening to a new patient trying to jam her life story into a half hour session. while I feel for the author and trauma she endured as a child I must concede this story is a literary failure.

I love the book. I laughed and CRIED. I can relate to almost everything ... it definitely hit home.

About the author

Bella was born in December of 1949 to blue-collar working class parents in a small town in North Carolina. Her childhood was very tragic and left wounds that can never truly heal. Bella started writing at age seven, hidden in a closet with a flashlight. She poured her heart and dreams of a better life out onto paper and hid them. She was a good student all the way through school. Knowing that knowledge was all she could control, she soaked up every bit of it she could. Graduating from high school as Salutatorian, she was granted a full scholarship to college. She went on to publish three poetry books and a book on animal rescue. Life and relationships were always a challenge for Bella, as her upbringing followed her like a dark shadow. Animals were her best friends. She married, had two daughters, divorced, and remarried. Life for her was one of deep depression, and she struggled daily just to survive. Today, after much therapy and healing, Bella is working to help other children and women much like herself. There is a light shining at the end of that dark tunnel.