I Am Nobody: Confronting the Sexually Abusive Coach Who Stole My Life
✍ Scribed by Gilhooly, Greg
- Book ID
- 109728820
- Publisher
- Greystone Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781771642453
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"I Am Nobody is an honest, tragic account of child sexual abuse and a powerful resource for individuals struggling with recovery. Gilhooly clearly highlights the shortcomings of the Canadian justice system's approach; hopefully, one day, the punishment will fit the crime." -- Sheldon Kennedy, former NHL player and author of Why I Didn't Say Anything
In this raw, unflinching look at how his dream of playing hockey was stolen from him by charismatic hockey coach and sexual predator Graham James, Greg Gilhooly describes in anguishing detail the mental torment he suffered both during and long after the abuse and the terrible reality behind the sanitized term "sexual assault." Although James has been convicted of sexually assaulting some of his victims, including Sheldon Kennedy and Theo Fleury, he neither confessed in court nor was convicted of sexually assaulting many of his other victims, including Gilhooly, depriving him of the judicial closure he...