Lost Innocence Peter Matthews : Lulu.com : 9781716065439 : 1716065437 : 17 Feb 2021 : This is a story about a young boy growing up in the sixties, who is living in the shadows of abuse. He struggles to contemplate all that falls before him, as he is reminded daily of the secret that he must keep. struggling to identify who he is as he gets older, the abuse follows him into his early teens; and then into adulthood through relationships he tries to bind. As a little boy, his biggest fear and regret will be that of betraying the secret that he once was asked to keep. Not only had he betrayed that secret that he was asked to swear too, but he also felt that he betrayed his mother, for whom the betrayal was against a family member. what would later be revealed would turn out to be the makings of a monster, a preditor against children. this little boy, with the courage to betray this man, would eventually lead the police on a search that would discover the horrors that more children were inv