title: Stolen Innocence: The True-life Terror I Experienced as a Child
author: Elaine Carole
description: My name is Elaine Carole; I was born and raised in Connecticut until the age of 11 when my family moved to Florida. I still live and now work on the Gulf Coast of Florida. I have my Bachelors Degree in Business from Eckerd College. In 2005 I received an award for Sales Excellence. I am a single parent to a wonderful son. I have done several speaking engagements for the Victims Coalition bringing awareness of the needs to victims of sexual crimes. My goal with this book is to bring further awareness and hope to other victims or to someone you may know a victim that is keeping it a secret.
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  After Innocence by Brenda Joyce
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
  New York City, 1890
  
  “Sofie, where are you?”
  
  The little girl cringed. She set her mouth stubbornly and did not move from
  the small corner in her bedroom, trapped between the cheerfully papered wall
  and the adult-sized bed.
  
  Footsteps sounded, approaching. “Sofie?” Her mother’s tone was sharp, annoyed.
  “Sofie! Where are you?”
  
  Sofie inhaled hard, tears filling her eyes, as the door banged open and
  Suzanne appeared in the doorway. If only Papa were here. If only he
  
  
  hadn’t gone away. If only he would come home.
  
  “Sofie! When I call, you come! What are you doing? I have something important
  to tell you!” Suzanne said in a strident voice.
  
  Sofie reluctantly met her mother’s gaze, which quickly turned furious,
  spotting the paper at her feet.
  
  “What is this?” Suzanne cried, bending. She snatched the sheet of paper,
  brilliantly, boldly colored, from her. Still, even to an adult, there was no
  mistaking the figures in the dra