Behind Closed Doors: Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse

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Sue Smethurst Katherine X

Behind Closed Doors

Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse

Sue Smethurst, Katherine X

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Simon & Schuster Australia
01 July 2016

Memoirs; Child abuse; Sexual abuse & harassment

Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse.

Now updated with a new epilogue, detailing Katherine's brave stand at the Royal Commission In March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of his daughter Elisabeth over 24 years, fathering seven children. The case shocked the world.

But just a month before, the story of Australia's own house of horrors was emerging in a Victorian country town.

Under a blanket of suppression orders, a man in his late sixties was quietly arrested, charged - and later convicted - for the systematic rape, abuse and imprisonment of his only daughter, 'Katherine', which spanned decades. He fathered four of her children.

Until recently, this shocking story had been buried under a complex legal web and Katherine's insistence on silence so that she could rebuild her shattered life and protect her children. In Behind Closed Doors, Katherine speaks out and tells the story of how she survived - and how such degrading abuse went unnoticed for so long.

Now, a new epilogue reveals the evidence Katherine gave at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, detailing the betrayal she felt at having been ignored for so long.

By: Sue Smethurst, Katherine X
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 128mm, Width: 198mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 256g
ISBN: 9781925368284
ISBN 10: 1925368289
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 July 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sue Smethurst is a senior journalist with The Australian Women's Weekly. She has spent 20 years in media working across television, radio and magazines. Her career has taken her around the globe interviewing the likes of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Kylie Minogue, Olivia Newton John and Christopher and Pixie Skase. In addition to her editorial career Sue has worked on and off camera with A Current Affair and Sunrise, and spent five years as a commentator with Neil Mitchell on 3AW. Blood on the Rosary is her seventh book, and her book Behind Closed Doors was a finalist for the 2016 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards. Sue lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.