Frank Carlson Library

Jadie never spoke, never laughted, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But nothing in Torey Hayden's experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed silence. It was a story too painful, too horrific for hayden's professional colleagues to acknowledge. But Torey Hayden could not close her ears...or her heart. A little girl was...

A teacher of emotionally disturbed children tells of her work with a silent and withdrawn eight-year-old girl who is the possible victim of ritual abuse.