About the AuthorDereck O'Brien was born in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1959 to teenage parents. In 1964, the Department of Child Welfare removed Dereck and his brothers from their home, citing parental neglect as the reason. Dereck spent the next twelve years as a ward of the department, residing in a series of court-appointed residences. in several of these residences he suffered, and was witness to, horrific abuse by his caretakers.In 1982, he married Dale Decker and, at last, found the family love he'd never known. The couple have two children, Sabrina, age six, and Brittany, age two. where can i download free books Suffer Little Children: An Autobiography of a Foster Child
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