I am nobody : confronting the sexually abusive coach who stole my life / Greg Gilhooly.

I am nobody : confronting the sexually abusive coach who stole my life / Greg Gilhooly.

By
Gilhooly, Greg.

Publication Date
2018

Publication Information
Vancouver, B.C. : Greystone Books,

Physical Description
ix, 276 p.

Subject Term
Sexual abuse victims -- Canada -- Biography.
 
Sexually abused teenagers -- Canada -- Biography.
 
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
 
Lawyers -- Canada -- Biography.

Summary
His dream of playing hockey was stolen from him by charismatic hockey coach and sexual predator Graham James. Greg Gilhooly describes in anguishing detail the mental torment he suffered both during and long after the abuse and the terrible reality behind the sanitized term "sexual assault." Although James has been convicted of sexually assaulting some of his victims, including Sheldon Kennedy and Theo Fleury, he neither confessed in court nor was convicted of sexually assaulting many of his other victims, including Gilhooly, depriving him of the judicial closure he craved. Gilhooly also provides a valuable legal perspective, as both a victim and a lawyer, and he delivers a powerful indictment of a legal system that, he argues, does not adequately deal with serial sexual child abuse or allocate enough resources to the rehabilitation of the victim. Greg Gilhooly is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. He lives in Oakville, Ontario.

Language
English

ISBN
9781771642453


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall Number
Corner BrookAdult NFicAdult Non-Fiction362.76092 G39
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFicAdult Non-Fiction362.76092 G39
St. John's - Michael DonovanADULT NFIC - DISPLAYAdult Non-Fiction Display362.76092 G39