Child Abuse Healing With Jim Heaney - Nov 10,2012

Addiction and Child Abuse Healing Join Jim Heaney, the critically acclaimed author of Divine Child: Evil vs. The Angels of Stony Island this is a story about child abuse and children abuse healing. When your own family doesn't work out, pay attention. There's probably someone else to help you grow up. For Jim Heaney, it was the angels of Stony Island. After being molested by a neighbor, ten-year old Jimmy is abandoned by the people who should be protecting him. His grades and behavior plummet, and he starts drinking. But there are still bright spots in his life in Chicago's Stony Island neighborhood including baseball down by the railroad tracks, and his parish school. The priest and teachers at St. Ailbes can't fix his family, but they still manage to give the desperate boy the help he needs to survive.

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