TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benedek,Emily
AU  - Smart,Elizabeth
TI  - Hometown betrayal: a tragic story of secrecy and sexual abuse in Mormon country 
SN  - 9798886452488
AV  - BX8643.C55 B46 2024
U1  - 362.764092 23/20241113
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Austin, TX
PB  - Greenleaf Book Group Press
KW  - Miller, Valarie Clar.
KW  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
KW  - United States
KW  - Adult child abuse victims
KW  - Biography
KW  - Latter Day Saint women
KW  - Utah
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300); Foreword; Elizabeth Smart --; Prologue : a little bird, lying there broken --; "A choice and special spirit" --; "Like a weird Faulkner novel" --; "He never saw her run" --; Crawling through broken glass --; "Dirty, inside and out" --; "Her memory recall is very painful" --; "Blood on my boots" --; "All she had left were her dreams" --; "Mayberry, with a really deep evil streak" --; "The big-eared bastard" --; "An environment of hiding things from each other" --; "Never bring that up again!" --; The most serious allegation ever made against a major officer --; Denial and slander" --; "My memory is on my mind" --; Last rites and wrongs --; Justice delayed --; Photos
N2  - "Valarie Clark Miller seemed to have it all. Smart, beautiful, and athletic, with a wealthy, successful husband and a growing family, Valarie appeared to be the picture-perfect Mormon wife. But it was all a fȧade. Inside, she was crumbling from the pressures of long-repressed memories of a childhood plagued with sexual and physical abuse. In Hometown betrayal, author Emily Benedek brings you behind the closed doors of the remote Mormon community of Clarkston, Utah. With the help of hundreds of individual stories, she pieces together not only what happened to Valarie, but also the conditions and culture that allowed it. Hometown Betrayal culminates in an account of the Miller family's fight to hold accountable the men--including the local cop--who abused Valarie and controlled the systems designed to look the other way."--
ER  -