Twisted Roots of Evil

By Susan A. Kesegich

Book Overview

A true story of incest, physical abuse and mental torment and how one young girl fought back For 17 years Louise was married to this man she had come to hate. Along with her were her five innocent children. For every year of their lives they watched their father brutally batter their mother. Each of the children were subjected to one or more of the following types of abuse. Incest. Physical Beatings. Mental Abuse. Deprivation. Rape. For years this family lived in fear and in 1977 they were failed by the judicial system when they tried to escape. They were able to get away but he only got a slap on the wrist. In 1994, seventeen years later he would not walk away. During that seventeen year period he married a severely mentally handicapped cousin and raised five more children. This second family was more severely abused. Learn from this story how a police captain from a small southern town finally brought about justice for all these victims and touched the lives of both families. This is a story of survival and strength and a story for survivors everywhere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1723781827
• ISBN13: 9781723781827
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Worth the Read

This was a very good book and it makes you wonder how a husband and father can be so evil, the epitomy of Satan himself almost. The author is a very brave woman and the book is well worth reading. I think I would have gone insane with the abuse she and her siblings suffered. It's a real eye opener too.

A Must Read Book...

After I picked this book up and started reading it I couldnt put it down. The author is so vivid in her writing that it keeps you pinned to your seat. While reading the book its as though you can feel the fear that these children lived with on a day to day basis. This book sums up just how cruel some child abuse cases can really be.

Twisted Roots of Evil

This book was an eye opening experience for me. Many of us tend to run from our past and refusing to deal with it. When i read the book it made me realize that i am not the only one as a child that has suffered at the hands of a trusted adult and will continue to tell others i know about TWISTED ROOTS OF EVIL, A real page turner, when i read it i had to keep a box tissue near me. Until more people open there eyes and realize this is happening and speak up and stop the abuse then it will continue.

Vivid, candid, shocking -- a clarion call to action!

An abuse and incest victim as a child, Susan Kesegich struggledto understand how it could happen to herself and her sisters. Borninto a poor, rural family that often went without food, electricity and plumbing, Kesegich and her four siblings suffered extreme neglect, sexual, mental, and physical abuse with intervention by responsible adults, school, church or community agencies. Kesegich was eventually able to understand her childhood traumas and work to help other women and children through volunteer efforts at a local child abuse center and become trained as a special court appointed advocate for children. Twisted Roots Of Evil is vivid, candid, shocking, and a highly recommended testament to conditions that still persist in all too many areas of the country.

Great book for all of us Survivors!

A truly amazing book filled with so much feeling on the awful subject of abuse and sexual abuse. I too am a survivor and was so inspired by "Twisted Roots Of Evil"and the courage that Susan shown in this book to stand up and fight for the rights of all of us victims of this terrible and humiliating crime that robs us of all of our innocence. I would buy this book as part of your healing process as I have found it to be of utmost therapy on my road to recovery. Thank You Susan and may God Bless you! Sincerely, Vivian DiGrazia