Girl Uncoded

<b>For fans of true crime memoir comes a gripping tale of one woman's harrowing and spiritual journey of resilience after she learns that she was a victim of a sex crime--and her husband was the culprit.</b> <p/>At sixteen Caroline longed to meet the man who owned the apartment she was hanging out at with her teenage friends. The one they said was a stripper a fact that intrigued her. From the moment she saw Gary Richard she craved his attention--and once their eyes met he was all she wanted. <p/>Months later she was dismayed to discover that she was pregnant. But she had Gary Richard she reassured herself and he was all she needed to be okay. A belief that didn't change even when holding their week-old son she sat in court and watched him face charges for stolen property. This was her family her life; so when Gary Richard's lawyer suggested a ploy to show the judge he was a changed man she agreed. At seventeen years old she became a wife. <p/>Over the next nine years Caroline's identity and dreams of a fairy-tale life became twisted by adultery betrayal poverty court cases and lies. And then one evening the reality of her marriage finally became clear to her after a sergeant revealed she was the victim of one of her husband's crimes--statutory rape--and her son's DNA was the evidence the prosecution needed to convict him.