Who Will Believe You?: My story of survival, and finding the courage
In 1976, Francis Beaumont spirited eleven-year-old Kim Chown and her brother away from their mother to Africa, where he had taken a job as a university lecturer. There, behind a veneer of respectability, he terrorised and brutalised his own child, Kim, sexually and emotionally abusing her several times a day. Only aged twenty did Kim feel able to escape from him, descending into alcoholism, after her siblings and mother refused to help her seek justice. But after almost ending her own life, Kim fought back. With the support of her husband and adult children, she finally faced him in court and won justice for his shocking crimes. This is one woman's inspiring true story of overcoming harrowing abuse to build a happy life - against all odds.
Author: Kim Chown
Format: Paperback, 384 pages, 132mm x 201mm, 268 g
Published: 2021, John Blake Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: True Crime
In 1976, Francis Beaumont spirited eleven-year-old Kim Chown and her brother away from their mother to Africa, where he had taken a job as a university lecturer. There, behind a veneer of respectability, he terrorised and brutalised his own child, Kim, sexually and emotionally abusing her several times a day. Only aged twenty did Kim feel able to escape from him, descending into alcoholism, after her siblings and mother refused to help her seek justice. But after almost ending her own life, Kim fought back. With the support of her husband and adult children, she finally faced him in court and won justice for his shocking crimes. This is one woman's inspiring true story of overcoming harrowing abuse to build a happy life - against all odds.