<p>A HARROWING STORY ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL'S TRAUMATIC ASSAULT AND THE YEARS OF RECOVERY THAT FOLLOWED.</p><p><br></p><p>Six-year-old Erica is bullied at school. Upset she decides to walk home. She never arrives. The next morning a search party finds her naked and unconscious in the dry sand under the bridge at Sandy Creek. Victim of a brutal perverted assault and with catastrophic life-threatening injuries she is rushed to hospital by helicopter and placed on life support.</p><p><br></p><p>Ruined For Life? follows Erica and her father Colin after her traumatic assault. While Erica is in hospital in a coma the local community is angry and focusses on Colin. He is arrested for assaulting and strangling his daughter. He is beaten up in prison. When the police discover he is innocent he is released. Weeks after the event Erica emerges from her coma and fearfully reveals to her father who the true perpetrator was. Colin and the community are stunned. After an arrest Erica and her father begin her difficult healing journey.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a challenging and controversial story of a young girl moving on from horror.</p>