The Unbreakable Child, a story about forgiving the unforgivable, is a
riveting journey inside the secretive underbelly of the St. Thomas/St.
Vincent Orphan Asylum in rural Kentucky. It is the first book in the
United States to confront the institutionalized physical and emotional
abuse suffered by countless orphans at the hands of Catholic clergy over
these last decades. It also documents the historic United States lawsuit
and first-ever settlement paid by Roman Catholic nuns in the United
States as recompense for decades of brutal institutional abuse of the
author, her sisters, and 42 other children.