Dorothy Smith

The Innocent Ones - Abuse2 (2 is Superscript) Dorothy Smith

The Innocent Ones-Abuse 2 accurately portrays the anguish of a mother who lived in a physically abusive relationship for years. She was devastated to find out her son was being molested by his father. The Innocent Ones-Abuse to the Second Power represents the abuse to both the mother and the son, with the twist that the mother's staying in the relationship all those years, makes her feel like an accomplice. She struggles to sort through this, as she fights a legal system that continued to refuse to protect them from the tornado. The tornado wreaked havoc on the lives of all those that got in his path. He was able to pull the counselors, policemen, and their friends into his all-consuming control, believing he was beyond reproach. These pages will envelope the reader in thecourageous fight of a mother to get a reluctant legal system to protect her sonfrom further abuse.