hi joe,
i just had finish your book CRY SILENT TEARS and i do not know and how will i express my feeling after i read it all. im wishing and hoping that there somebody who save you from those people in your younger years and pay for what have done to you and your bother. i couldnt say on how will i express myself after all this.
But im happy to know that you have a understanding and lovable wife and your kids now. im wishing and praying for all your safe and happiness.
im really really soo sorry. i will pass this to my family in philippines. its also the same living there and hoping will know how to love and protect their kids and everybody.
God bless you and your family.
love and pray
flora

Hi Joe

I've just finished reading your book. It is so shocking to think that that kind of sexual harrassment was possible without someone noticing or doing anything about it. You're the same age as my husband and it is soo unbelievable that that was going on while we were growing up and probably still is today in parts of the world.
Thank you for telling your story and making it known.

Regards

Ruth

hi joe, i have read your book and it shocked me to the core! i cant wait to read your next book, and i wish you and your family all the best for the future x

Hi Joe
I am nearly finished reading "cry silent tears" and can I just say what a fab book this is. I cant put it down at all. I must say that I am appalled at the way a mother can treat her own flesh and blood like that. I am so pleased that you have now found happiness. My heart goes out to all the children who were and are still involved in awful events such as those. All the very best and I cant wait till the next book.
Paula

Dear Joe,
I have started this endless times now as I really don't know what to say except although I had an abusive childhood your story shook me to the core. I wish you well and hope you have truly found the happiness and peace you deserve. Thank you for sharing your story and believe me when i say it has made me more aware. I work for the NCH (Action For Children) and this new awareness I have will hopefully be of some good. I will be recommending your book. Keep up the good work.
Best wishes to you and your family
Pippa

Hi Joe,
Well...where do i start? I have like many others just finished your book, took me a total of 3 days, would of been quicker if i didnt have a job to go to! Ha Well what can i say, i am truly shocked and appalled by the life you have had, my heart goes out to you. The first chance i got i came on here to look at your website (my first visit) and i just had to leave a msg. I have read many true life stories like your own but yours is the one that made me cry the most. I cant possibly imagine the suffering you went through. My best friend went threw abuse as a child by a family member and i have been there threw thick and thin with her while a lot of her family have turned against her. The man was recently found guilty and the sentencing is in March of this year, which of course has shown a light to something good at the end of this road to hell.
Anyway you truly are a amazing person, and i hope many people have the strength to follow in your footsteps. I am waiting very eager and patiently for your second book. I am so happy you have finally found happiness and have a amazing family, if anyone deserves that then you do. Take care Joe xx

Love and best wishes Vicki xx

Hi Joe,

This is my third time to visit your site and have sat staring at the screen wondering what to write to you. Each time thinking back on the abuse you suffered and getting to emotional to even start. I cant even start to explain the admaration i hold for you but anyway. I recently read you book on holidays in the space of a few hours. Needless to say i was shocked and apauled at the true horrors of your childhood. I truely cant believe the person you have become today and am in awe of the insiparation you have become to many who have read your book (including myself and many of my friends). I have seen the affects child abuse can leave with us and it has given me so much hope to come onto your website and see the ammout of support that you and your family have recived. It has certinly made me more motavitied to get out and raise awareness of child abuse and its affects. The story of your life has deeply touched me and i will be recomending it to everyone and also buying copies of the new 1. Anyway i'll leave it there as im not a good writer Ijust had to get something down to tell you how amazing you are to achieve what you have today. I wish you and all your family all the happiness in the world. You truely deserve it. xxxx

Roisin (Dublin)

I read your book 'Cry silent tears' and my heart goes out to you, your mother, family n her friends gave you an awful life, how people can be so cruel, unhuman i will never know, when i was reading your book there were times i wished i could turn back time to helped you. You are an inspiration to everyone and i wish you all the best with your life.
love Shelly xxx
Dublin

Good Evening,
I found your book in a "book exchange" in a hotel whilst I was on holiday in Fuerteventura (I treated my husband for his 60th birthday in Jauary). I could not put the book down, and found it very distressing that one human being could treat an innocent child so dreadfully. My own upbringing was not charmed, however what you had to endure is something that woudl go on in a torture camp. My husband also read the book and was also distressed, angry and a whole load of other emotions.
I know that "do gooders" still treat children in the same way because my youngest son is a police officer and regularly gets called to a local children's home because the have a report of a "misper" (missing person), they treat the children as though they are an interuption to their endless coffee breaks.
there does not appear to be any sort of counselling or care taking place and on a regular basis the children are returned to their parents, only to end up back at the children's home - the same scenario that you endured.
I totally admire you strength of character and determination to get through it! To have turned out to be a sucessful grown up is no mean achievement.
You have probably heard all of these comments before but I don't think that I would have been able to survive what you went through.
I am so glad that you have a good wife and family life so that you have someone to give your love and support and also to receive the same.
May you go on doing good work and enjoying your life.
With love and compassion
Sandra

I like many other people have just finished reading your book , and i stll find it hard to take in that anybody could even consider treating a child like you and many others have been treated ,especially off there own mother ..... this just goes to show that people do have willpower and can survive just like you have ,i would like to thank you for opening my eyes as to what can go on behind closed doors ,and think that you yourself have done a great job in helping others .. i would just like to finish now by telling you you are an amazing human being to come through this i admire your courage and wish you and your family well thankyou joe xx