Little Girl Lost: One Women's Journey Beyond Rape

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Leisha Joseph enjoyed a happy childhood as the only, treasured daughter of an upper-middle-class family with three brothers and doting parents. All this ended abruptly when she was eight years old. Her father's tragic death in an industrial accident put undue strain on her mother, who exhibited a series of wild behaviors. After trying to burn the house down in front of her astonished children and chasing Leisha with a butcher knife, she was taken to the state mental hospital.After the death of her beloved grandparents, Leisha was left to care for her mother, who was frequently in and out of mental hospitals, and brought home a string of boyfriends, some of whom preferred children and made their way to Leisha's bed. Although she found God as a teenager, that comfort did not last long as she became disillusioned with Christianity and experimented with drugs until an overdose had her on her knees, promising to serve God all her life if he saved her. She was sober in an instant, and has kept her promise.But just as Leisha had managed to turn her life around and was a finalist in the Miss Teen USA pageant, she suffered a violent rape at the hands of a serial sex offender. Yet God intervened once more, giving Leisha words that would save her life and would eventually cause her sobbing attacker to confess. Even when he escaped and came after her as he threatened to do, Leisha refused to let fear dominate her life. Although the events of her life are sensational, the deeper story of Leisha's life lies in her relationship with God, and what she can teach others who live with fear and the pain resulting from violence and trauma..

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