ESCAPING DADDY: A Heartbreaking True Story of a Brave Little Girl

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Sarge

For a child to be treated as trash like she was, and still fight to be a better person and a Mother for her sons - in her efforts SHE EXCELLED where others would have given up. Maria’s psychopathic father spends time in jail regularly for crimes other than what he inflicts on his children. Maria’s repeated suicide attempts, self-cutting, drug involvement, and inability to accept kind treatment stem from her belief that everything her father tells her is true and she is worthless, fat, ugly, and no one will ever love her but him. This book is well worth reading for the insight it provides into the minds of seemingly tough little street girls and women who are willing to risk their lives each time they step into the vehicle of a stranger who may be the one who is a murderer.

MJ Payne is pen name

BOOK REVIEW OF “DADDY’S LITTLE EARNER” BY MARIA LANDONBy MJ Payne“Daddy’s Little Earner” by Maria Landon shows how a sadistic, narcissistic father takes over his daughter’s self-image and controls her completely. He keeps her off balance being kind one moment and raging the next. Abuse and neglect in childhood create a social debt that everyone ends up paying for in some way. When he is in prison Maria and her brother are sent from foster homes to institutions.

She says that she feels there is a glass wall between herself and other people and longs for a loving family. This story is an echo that wails through the life of every prostitute who ends up on the street by being manipulated and belittled by brutal treatment as a child. She thinks it is all her fault and that she is a bad person who does not deserve better than to be beaten bloody and raped. I just turned my head and grabbed One.