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There are 5 ways to purchase a copy RIGHT NOW and have it autographed for $23.95 plus $3 S/H through PayPal (8 Feb 2006 - to my UK customers.. please see number 6 below)
1. Click the "buy now" emblem right here ... and supply your endorsement request (book will be shipped within one week and please know that much of the proceeds will go towards Child Abuse Prevention through education, and I hope someday to offset college education costs for some of my siblings who elect to go to college. I want to make a difference in our lives and this is how I think I can do it with a great deal of residual effect).
3. You can go click on this link that will take you to www.amazon.com to get the book as well
4. And, finally, you can mail a check for $23.95 plus $3 s/h to
Jennifer Stephens P.O. Box 5522 Fort Lee, VA 23801
5. New as of March 2006... the Barnes and Noble website is carrying the book at:
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6. To my UK customers (please see the UK Customers Page on this site)..
**25 Sep 2007 - Mom is still in prison and is due to be let out in Dec 2007. She will be on probation for 8 years where she will not be able to talk to any of her children without their permission, and then, on their terms. ** 10 July 2006 - the Montel Williams Show has done an update on the story... Child Abuse Prevention Awareness has had a great year... I can't wait to see what the next year brings!!!! ** June 2006 - For the first time ever we were able to get 15 of the 16 kids in one family photo. It was truly a momentus moment for us kids to come together in a time of a wedding celebration to support each other. It was very serile to all of us to get this photo and it will be treasured for our entire lives. ** June 2006 - this month I found out that mom has been taken off work release and put into solitary confinement in a prison in Wisconsin. She was again manipulating the system and conducting illegal activities and thus put into solitary. The system has corrected itself again.. thanks Wisconsin Dept of Corrections... mom needs to realize she is not so powerful that she can violate the laws that govern her without reprecussions. **14 March 2006 - Bad news... my mother was let out of Taycheedah Women's Prison in Wisconsin, only 7 months after signing in. She was moved to a halfway house in Milwaukee where she is an inmate driver until Dec 2007. |
Our goal is to sell 100,000 books on this website. Portions of the proceeds are going to Child Abuse Prevention through education. Portions of the proceeds will also be going to the Child Abuse Prevention Fund located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Please check out my website at the Wisconsin Professional Speakers Association where I continue the effort of awareness and prevention:
http://www.wisconsinspeakers.com/NewSpeakerPages/Stephens.html
About the Book: This is a story of psychological terror brought on by the hands of my mother. I am the second oldest of 16 children and the stories I am about to describe relay what it was like to live under the terror and reign of our mother. The abuse started about 35 years ago in 1970 and who knew there would be 16 direct victims and many other people affected by her manipulations when all was said and done. Hind sight is truly 20/20 and I think if things were handled differently with the 1987 felony child abuse charges in
There are two distinct time periods in this story: the 17 years prior to 1987 and the 18 years after 1987. You will find parallels in both sections that I still can not believe today and I was part of the situation from the beginning and a catalyst for this coming to light. What you will see is a very large break in the system but above all, the master manipulation that would rival the greatest minds. By manipulating her children, the social workers, the lawyers, the prosecutors, mom got off with nothing in 1987 when she was facing 18 counts of felony and misdemeanor child abuse charges, $180,000 in fines and 30 years in prison. Her ability to walk away from that without a scar only enabled her psychotic manipulating mind and that allowed mom to abuse again without fear for the next 18 years. It is heartbreaking to live with the fact that these actions have been addressed in the past and she ended up inflicting the same thing on my brothers and sisters as soon as the Department of Social Services stepped out of the situation in the late 80s. Jennifer has lived a truly extraordinary life. As a child, she endured the horrors of child abuse, which included physical torture, mental cruelty, and near starvation. Upon Jennifer’s escape in 1987, her family was identified as one of the most severe child abuse cases in Jennifer continues to be an extreme advocate for social services, foster care, law enforcement, prosecutors and individual members of society that make a difference every single day in the lives of children. In her off duty time, Jennifer offers programs for corporate groups, human services, Child Abuse Prevention Fund in
Currently MAJ Stephens is an instructor at the Army Logistics Management College working on her PhD in Organizational Behavior and Leadership at Northcentral University.e She has Bachelors Degree in International Business and Finance from the University of Louisville, KY, a Masters in Business Administration and Global Management from the University of Phoenix, AZ and a Juris Doctor from Concord School of Law. She continues to fight the fight for those who cannot fight for themselves and will continue to be vigilant in her child abuse efforts. Jennifer hopes to be in public office one day where she can make a difference for child abuse prevention awareness, womens rights, single parent programs, military and veterans affairs. | |
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Photo of the Author Photo of the Author: Major Jennifer Stephens Linda Mugshot Aug 2004 Linda Aug 2004 Jennifer with Mayor Bill Daly Jennifer briefing General Sullivan, Former Chief of Staff of the Army |
***January 2008 - Mom was let out of prison. Our three years of solace are over. Let's hope she learned some ethical, moral and legal lessons during her time to reflect.
***January 2006 - Woman Magazine from the United Kingdom will be doing a two page cover story on our story taking our fight for child abuse prevention world-wide!!
***20 Feb 2006 - I will be doing a conference for the Wisconsin Association of Women's Police to discuss the role of law enforcement in Child Abuse Prevention ***22 January 2006 - thanks to everyone that came out and supported the Cut-A-Thon to include local radio and Television for promoting the event!! My sister and I had a great time intereacting with the supportors of the cause and autographed a few books. *** 8 Nov 2005 - The MONTEL WILLIAMS SHOW aired showcasing our triumph over circumstance story.
Excerpt page 38 September 14, 1987 - This is a day that I will never forget, it was the day that I looked into my mothers eyes and saw my own mortality. It was the day that I wanted to give up trying and just pass away to the next world. This day, is engrained in so many of the kids minds that each one that witnessed it can tell you a story of psychological warfare, utter pain, mental anguish, and overall defeat. This day was worse than anything I have faced in 14 years in the military. This day was worse than anything I could imagine, it was the day that my mother tried to kill me and was the day that I saw the devil in her eyes. So much of the last 17 years have built up to this moment and this day was merely the straw that broke the camels back. This day started like any other day in our house, but it ended being a day that changed our lives forever. After school that day I was walking to my babysitting job which was a couple of miles away. One of the sneaky things I did as a teenager was to switch my clothes and hair when I got to school. Mom always made me wear skirts and two pigtails in my hair up until this day (I think she was reliving her high school years through us) and I snuck a pair of pants to school and a brush. When I got there in the morning after being dropped off I would go to the bathroom and switch out of my skirt and comb out my hair. Ted knew what I was doing but he never said much, he knew the deal. Well I took my skirt along with me when I was walking to the house I was to baby-sit at but I was still wearing my pants. Unbeknownst to me, my mother was following me in the car. She came up to me and found that I was wearing a pair of pants and had my hair down and not in pigtails which was one of her number one rules I was not allowed to do. She shoved me in the car and refused to let me continue to the job and she made me take off my pants in the car and she threw them out the window. To this day I do not remember how Mr. Maloney found out I was not going to be working there anymore, I think I was in too much shock to remember that. She started to beat me in the head, a 17 year old girl, in the car and saying things that I just can not write down on a piece of paper without cringing. All I could do was cry to myself but knew it would be over soon, until she stopped at the hair cutters. She said that since I cared so much about my hair and that I would not wear the pigtails that she would have it cut off. She had my father take me in and say: cut it short, and then they left me there to get it cut. I cried in the chair the whole time and told the lady that mom was forcing this. She cried too and said she would try not to cut it too much. My dad came back to pick me up and he immediately looked at my hair and said your mother is going to be mad. I tensed because I knew what was coming. I got home and no sooner did I walk into the door that the bug eyes my mother is so famous for came out and she went straight for my hair. She was so mad she ran over to me and started pounding on my head and my back. I screamed in pain and disbelief and this went on for a while. Then she got even more crazy, she made dad get the other two girls down from the room to watch what was about to happen to me. Mom dragged me to the bathroom by my hair holding my face up to the mirror and screaming profanities at me. She took me by the neck with her forearm and strung me up on the wall with my feet dangling. She had freakishly strong grips that you could not get out of and she made the girls watch as she terrorized me. I was screaming, the girls were screaming for her to stop but she would not. She pushed on my neck and put her face up to mine and simply yelled at me, do you want me to kill you, do you want me to kill you now! and the only words that would come out of my mouth was: yes, yes, yes just kill me now and get it over with. She dropped me and yelled at the girls to watch what would happen to them if they ever disobeyed her and she took the knife and started chopping off my hair to the scalp. Just chopped and chopped in her fit of rage and beating me to my knees. I drained of life in that very moment. When she was done she sent us all to our black prison cells of our rooms and the girls cried for me that night. I slumped down on the bottom bunk, curled to the fetal position and prayed to God that I would not wake up. | |
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