Surviving Incest and Childhood Prostitution: a true story

Surviving Incest and Childhood Prostitution is the remarkable true story of the author's early years as a victim of incest at the hands of her father and grandmother, as well as enduring monthly events where she was sold, prostituted, to neighbors, family friends, and complete strangers in order to provide food and shelter for her parents and many siblings.
It is a harrowing and deeply disturbing story but one that needs to be told.
Being sold to men, when one is very young and throughout childhood and teen years, can have devasting effects, especially when the people selling the child are one's own mother, father and grandmother.
Amy remained silent for five decades before she encountered a therapist who could handle hearing about what she had experienced. Over the course of seven years, Amy was finally able to speak out loud all the silent screams and release her pain. She would like to believe that her years of pain and suffering had a purpose, to light the way for other survivors of incest and prostitution. To show them the deep shame they feel can only exist in silence. Never, in a thousand years would the severely abused Amy Maureen Murphy believe that she would be able to say the words aloud, I Am A Survivor of Incest and Childhood Prostitution. May her courage and strength shine and help others find their voice.