An edition of Dark obsession (1990)

Dark obsession

a true story of a father's crime and a daughter's terror

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An edition of Dark obsession (1990)

Dark obsession

a true story of a father's crime and a daughter's terror

  • 12 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

A remarkable story of domestic horror, courage - and triumph. Shelley Sessions was a bright popular Texas teenager. Her father, Bobby Sessions, was a successful, driven man-about-town with an ego and a bank account as expansive as the Lone Star State. On the surface, theirs was the ideal family, but what admiring observers could little uspect was that behind the all-American exterior lay Bobby Sessions' dark obsession. Bobby adored his little girl from the moment he'd laid eyes on her, but it wasn't long before fatherly affection turned to perversion. When Shelley was only 8yr. old, Sessions embarked on a pattern of sexual molestation that would define their relationship for the next 7yrs. Throughout, Sessions threatened his daughter with exposure: if she didn't do as he said, he would tell the world the awful truth about her. For years Shelley was bound to silence through her shame. But in the end, she stood up to her father, taking him on as well as her mother, her father's family, and a whole Texas town - none of them willing to confront the horror of sexual abuse within their own ranks. Shelley Sessions did not take the law into her own hands; she took her father to court. In a record-breaking settlement, the jury decided in Shelley's favour - to the tune of $10million.

Publish Date
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pages
316

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Dark Obsession
October 1, 1990, Berkley
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Case studies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.7/6
Library of Congress
HQ72.U53 S37 1990a

The Physical Object

Pagination
316 p. ;
Number of pages
316

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24279974M
Internet Archive
darkobsessiontru00sess
ISBN 10
0425122964
ISBN 13
9780425122969
OCLC/WorldCat
22407381

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