Section One – Background Information About the Victim – Me 

This section of the book will offer some background information about me, the victim. It will help you to know some things about who I am and help you to understand the story better when I discuss what happened on October 1, 2004. This was not at all considered when the police detectives were questioning me.   

The entire case rested upon the choice to believe what they heard from one person and not believe the other person. The detectives did not believe anything I said. They could not have known anything at all about me. I would learn decades later that Ana, the perpetrator who the detectives believed to be the victim, had been convicted of assault prior to this event.   

While I was assaulted by my parents growing up, I chose to enter a helping profession and to become a social worker. This section will be significantly longer than I had hoped. I wanted to start the book with the shocking events that occurred on October 1, 2004. I got feedback from more than one source, including from ChatGPT that suggested in an outline for this book that I should include a section on the history of the main person in the story.  

This section is very complicated. In fact, I have decided that this book will be part one of a two-part series of books – two separate memoirs. I think of a memoir as having a single subject as a focus. Much of the injustice would not happen if I had a family that cared about me instead of a family that offered emotional deprivation.  

The second book that will follow this one is going to explore the psychological impact of emotional deprivation. This book will try to stick to the topic of injustice or the perversion of justice. This section is still very complicated.  

My success as a mental health professional is described in an entirely different memoir. My ability to overcome shyness and social anxiety and find love on two different occasions is described in a separate memoir that is published already.  

I found as I was writing this book that I could go into greater detail about emotional deprivation as it created problems in terms of insecure attachment. Attachment is getting a great deal of attention in our current culture and in my own therapy/healing. However, this book is about the psychological impact of being falsely accused of a crime for which I was the victim.  

I will start with my earliest memories… the section will go on to cover two experiences of being in love and then becoming homeless and the first injustice that I experienced prior to the events that occurred on October 1, 2004, that are the focus of this book.