Dimensions
153 x 226 x 17mm
A Journey Through a Mother's Nightmare.
In the early hours of September morning in 1988 a mother answered her phone to face an unspeakable nightmare. Her much loved daughter, Janine Balding, has been found brutally raped and drowned in a shallow dam just off a freeway in Sydney's western suburbs.
Janine, a vivacious twenty-year-old, was abducted in daylight from a busy suburban carpark by five street kids, the youngest of whom was fourteen.
What was to follow for a close knit country family is a tragic story of our time as well as being a shocking indictment of aspects of our legal system and of our society in general.
Here, Beverley Balding describes how she was catapulted into a surreal world of convicted criminals, court hearings, police investigations and media interviews. She recounts her horror as well as the many bitter disappointments and frustrations she endured over a period of five years while the case against her daughter's killers unfolded slowly in our courts.
Despite the ever-present grief, Bev Balding emerges a changed and determined person with some powerful messages for us all.
