I bought your book at the weekend, and finished it within a day, I couldn't put it down, not because I found it amusing but because of how amazing it was that you survived. I literally cried at it, i think you're defnitely something this country can be proud of.

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Joe, what can I say? You are a true inspiration to everyone, if ever a story needed to be told it was yours. This book should be a compulsory read for every social worker, carer, child protection service etc etc as the warning signs were all there and no one bothered to acknowledge them. I cried at every chapter and gasped in shock so much so my husband is now reading the book. You are fantastic, brave, intelligent, thoughtful and now giving. You seem to be doing a fantastic job on this website and I will certainly be making a donation.
My husband and I have decided to foster after spending time with families who use social services as they have too many children or not enough money to cope or in fact not great parents. We have seen a child go round and round family members and in and out of foster homes and its just not right. He is not a parcel or a belonging!!!!
I know how not to be a great parent and all the things you shouldn't do and would offer a stable safe home as well as love and support to any child, but the system is very slow and frustrating.
Keep up the good work and I will be ordering your new book and sharing Cry Silent Tears with as many people as possible.
Stay true to yourself and God Bless xxx

Hi Joe, i have just finished reading ur book i am horrified that anyone could go through the things you did i cried so much. You are so very brave i am disgusted than these things go on with out anyone noticing it has made me have a better understanding what goes on i am so ashammed to live in a society where such evilness happens.I am so happy that you have found happiness you so deserve so much love .

Tracey

Hi Joe,

Like many others I just felt so moved by your story and desperately wanted someone to rescue you, having 2 small boys myself I just wanted to be able to reach into the book and take you away from your awful existance. I am so sorry on behalf of all mothers that you ended up with truly was the most evil mother ever. I wsih you nothing but love and happiness with your partner and children, no-one has ever deserved it more. Words cannot say enough how tragic your story is, but hopefully it will help others in a similar situation to actually be saved.

Gemma xx

Hello Joe,my Name is Diane(Dee),,I just read your book cry silent tears last night,I read this in one,go...
This has been the most horrendous memior i have read to date.Iam so sorry you have went through this - what i can only desrcibe as sheer torture -my emotions were all over the place-and still are.
I can only but say,that i have great admiration for you-you have made it,thankfully.
I myself,and 4 other family members have went through child abuse-of the sexual nature,from a family member,although he was not of blood relation-he is now dead-he died not long after the case went to court,he did not recieve any sentance,-probation-that was it!
I was the whistleblower in the ordeal,i cannot talk with my family about this,as they find it too hard to cope with,,so reading your memior has helped me in some ways,and made me realise that we have to get on with life,and not let it take me down,I'am now 31 and a mother of one-and could never in my wildest dreams begin to imagine what i would do to these- Scum of the earth,if i ever got to them-no form of violence would ever be enough.
As i say,i cant talk much regerding this to family,so i would rather get my built up feelings out in other ways,by speaking with other victims,this may help at times!
Your Dad sounded like a great loving caring and warm person,my dad is so much the same,but he cannot even dare mention the past,but i'm lucky-as he fought for me and the others-and feels guilt because he could not get this beast put away.
Iam so happy that you have made it through this-your amazing-and inspirational,Thank you.
Hugs,Dee x

I have just finished 'Cry Silent Tears', I read it in a day, I couldn't put it down. Reaching the epilogue was a relief, but I wanted to know more, so I look forward to your next book. I am a mother, and I just don't know how any mother can put their child through what you went through. I think you are an amazing man to have survived all that, and now have the ability to love and live your new life. Good luck to you, I hope you, your wife and your children have a very long and happy life together, noone deserves that more. Your Dad would be so proud of you.

Jo

hi joe i have just finished your book and would like to say good on you, i am really pleased you have found somebody to love and who loves you and i am sure your dad would be very proud of you. i hope the rest of your life is filled with happiness and i am sure you will be a dad your children wil be very proud of. take care and be happy xxxx

(please keep my email address secret)
I have just read your book cry silent tears, I read from cover to cover in a day.
I must say you are a remarkable man, on a remarkable journey, and now seeing your website, you really are an inspiration to others.
I had a hard childhood, our abuse came in the violence and mental torture, I silently begged god for years that someone would rescue me, until I reached the age where I learnt only I can rescue me.
My brother on the other hand went off the rails and spent alot of his young adult life in and out of prison, he now has 2 children and has changed nothing in his cycle, myself on the other hand fell pregnant at 17, just longing to be loved and to feel wanted, I battle depression on and off, but my children are in a loving home and want for nothing. the childhood only in my wildest dreams. I broke my cycle, but going to paernting classes, I still have a lack of confidence within myself and still see myself as the fat and ugly child I was always made out to be.
I am 28 now, and my dream job would be child psycology, and Iwould love to work in a role protecting and helping vunerable children, ...... if only I had the confidence to go to college and get the relevant degrees...

I wish you all the very best in your future and your future work.
You truely are an inspiration to any child and adult.
xxx

Bring back the DEATH PENALTY for these scum bags. How many more children have to suffer because our government and social services cant get their act together. How they can sleep at night knowing this shit is going on right under their nose. Keep fighting for the kids Joe

hi joe, i emailed you a while ago saying how amazing you are for everything you have been through. ever since i read your book i have not stopped thinking about you an what you have been through an i really want to help in some way, please tell me how i can help? it would mean so much to me if i could just do something to help, the work you have done is fantastic. amy x