Kat Ward

Although long-winded and only covering a period of fifteen traumatic years, this biography is a true account of hidden child abuse. It is not for the faint-hearted. Kat Ward relates, with utter candour, her experiences at the hands of the mother who hated her even before she was born, her step-father, who regarded her as something to be used on a whim and her step-father's friends -- to whom he 'sold' her. Even with so-called 'professionals' involved and despite the fact that Keri told the truth to her teacher, priest, social workers and child psychiatrist, nothing got better. In fact, things got worse and worse.

Keri

Kat Ward was the first victim to speak out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Jimmy Savile and her testimony became a catalyst for the uncovering of decades of abuse and cover-up. She has at last been vindicated and her story is both harrowing and immensely moving.

Jimmy Savile Tried to Ruin My Life. I was the First Victim to Fight Back.

Victim Zero

Kat Ward was the first victim to speak out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Jimmy Savile. Her shocking testimony was the catalyst for the uncovering of decades of abuse and cover-ups. Kat Ward's childhood was marked by physical, emotional and sexual abuse. She was eventually taken into local authority care to a children's home in Norfolk, and first encountered Savile whilst on a 'holiday' with the home on Jersey. Later, she was moved to Duncroft Approved School in Surrey, a secure unit. Amazingly, Savile turned up there too; he would regularly drive up in his Rolls-Royce and offer sweets and cigarettes in return for sexual favours. Kat's revelations had already appeared in a memoir she'd placed online using Savile's initials, but she first spoke on camera as part of Newsnight's infamous shelved Savile exposé. However, it was ITV's Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile (in which Kat did not take part), that led to his unmasking as a serial sex offender and opened the floodgates for hundreds of other victims to come forward, and for many other offenders to be unmasked. Freddie Starr brought a High Court case against her for libel and slander, seeking £300,000 in damages, calling her 'liar' and 'nutter'. It failed spectacularly in July 2015, with costs awarded against him. Although the last few years have been trying, they have ultimately brought Kat vindication after years of being labelled an attention-seeker and liar. Her book, which charts her life from the 1960s to the end of Starr's failed action, is a unique, harrowing and immensely moving perspective on one of the biggest news stories of the last decade.

Jimmy Savile tried to ruin my life. I was the first victim to fight back.

Volume 6 of the autobiographical series originally begun as a healing tool. In fact, Kat continues to heal whilst writing of her adult life even though she had been unaware that she needed to do so. Severely damaged from early childhood and throughout her formative years, Keri had ended up in local authority care, from where she should have been safe at last. This proved not to be the case at all. Already hurt beyond repair, Keri moved from pillar to post and from one disaster to another. In this sixth volume, Keri (now Karin) moves in with her new husband and his family. Of course, things can never be simple for someone who just does not know how to be a mother, a wife, even a fully-rounded person. In next to no time, Karin finds herself homeless, childless and without any kind of safety net. It is beginning to appear as if every single thing Mother had predicted for Karin's future will come true ... Now in her late fifties and living on the North Wales/English border along with her multiple pets and with three grown-up sons visiting regularly, Kat feels she has finally come full circle and is now actually beginning to live and experience life in a more usual frame. Sometimes, she describes herself as a writer.

As Mother Predicted

Keri Volume 6

Part five of the candid autobiographical account of a survivor of horrific abuse through childhood and the impact it had throughout the teenage years.

Part Five of Keri

Karin

CHILD ABUSE TRUE STORIES PRESENTS: THE FINAL VOLUME OF KAT WARD'S SENSATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY!After nearly a million words, three thousand pages, and countless nights of blood, sweat and tears, this truly is the book that needs no introduction!Kat Ward, the perennial survivor, has taken readers on a rollercoaster journey throughout her first six books, in which she lays bare the horrific events of her early life.Now, in this final chapter, she stares down the barrel of a mature existence, and realises that if she's ever going to live a normal life, she'll have to shed herself of her past completely, and start all over again.But after all the baggage is dumped, is there even anything left of the little girl within?DISCLAIMER: This is a true story of child abuse. Reader discretion is advised.

Kat Ward

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