Warning: Child Abuse: Abandoned, Violated and Betrayed - True Story is a short book - approximately 36 pages. Several incidences of childhood abuse at the hands of a close relative prove to have done their damage as she is forced to face her feelings about the abuse many years later. I realize that I've been pushing my feelings about my uncle to the side so I'm going to stop doing that and deal with it. I hate that he touched another girl like he did to me. Trice nodded. "A friend of mine from high school was raped by her boyfriend and she went through a major downward spiral before she started seeing a therapist. Sam took a deep breath then launched into her story.