Why did it have to happen to me? - Hardcover

Hilton, Wade

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0595513670 ISBN 13: 9780595513673

Publisher: iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Why Did it Have to Happen to me? has turned itself into the Aubre Auld story. This came about a couple of years after a group of teenage girls rallied behind the book and decided to make it into a sort of icon.
The Aubre Auld Story as they're now calling it at many schools and shelters for rape victims is a little anecdote about a fifteen-year-old girl who accepted a ride from a stranger at the restaurant where worked part-time. Instead of giving Aubre a ride home as was agreed upon, the man took her to a dark and unknown section of town and raped her.
After the ordeal, which lasted for a few minutes, he abandoned her and took off like a bolt of lightning. luckily enough a policeman came to rescue and took Aubre to a center for rape victims where her case was registered.
After not seeing any reaction from the police, Aubre and her best friend Penny decided to track down the rapist, Charlie Dewey, as they found out later from a boy who sent them to Rick's Auto Boutique.
After searching like detectives, Aubre and Penny finally caught up with Charlie, but the police refused to arrest him on grounds of insufficient evidence. However, they asked Charlie to go the police precinct and file a report as to his whereabouts on the night of the rape, but to their surprise he never showed up, as more and more girls and women call up to denounce him.
By then Aubre could do nothing but wait and hope to find him again. She finally did, but in a situation that will leave the reader agape.

About this title

About the Author

Wade Hilton was born in Jamaica, but grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He was schooled at Loyola College where he actually began to write, and for fun. He has since then written a series of eleven books, out of joy, as he likes to put it, because it wasn't until 1985 that he managed to publish his first book Success For All. It was then that Hilton, influenced by Napoleon Hill, started preaching the law of success through a positive mental attitude, plain to see throughout all his books, especially Goddess of the Arawaks. There is one thinking stuff that permeates the universe and it's working through us, using us to express its power to create. We are all tied to it and should thrive to let every human being become aware of the joys and good things it wants for us--all of us. Hilton believes that books are the best way to accomplish this, and has since then been promoting reading. Everybody must read at least ten books a year.
 

From the Back Cover

It's due time men get it in their heads that they just cannot go around raping women to satisfy their sexual needs. Women must be respected even if they go around half-naked, or naked for that matter. No man has the right to touch them in any way whatsoever. Women, after having been ruthlessly subjugated for so many years, have proven themselves to be much more than sex symbols and if men continue abusing them sexually, then there must be a law to punish them for committing their atrocities. It hurts to be abused, to have something precious wrenched away from you, and then to hear the sexist violator, say you provoked it because your dress or skirt was too short or your décolletage was too open. Men have to understand that this barbaric, animalistic stance has to stop--somebody must put a stopping not only to it but also to the physical and mental bashing inflicted on women.

From the Inside Flap

Needing a lift home from her waitress, fifteen-year-old Aubre auld makes a fateful decision: she accepts a ride from a stranger in the restaurant. Instead of taking Aubre home, the man brutally rapes her and abandons her in dark, cold alley.
Although traumatized by the attack, Aubre promises herself that she's not going to let the rape affect her her like it had done to so many other girls. She wants to move ahead in her life and not become a man hater. believing that the police have little sympathy for rape victims, Aubre and her best friend, Penelope Otis, become their own private detectives to track down the perpetrator. Her father forbids her to continue her risky investigation, but Aubre and Penelope are not to be stopped.
They determine the attacker is Charlie Dewey and set him up so he can be arrested and charged. Aubre's father is determined to gain revenge for his daughter's attack and purchases a gun. As Aubre looks forward to Charlie's day in court, she wonders if she can overcome the fears of the attack in order to be able to fully love a man.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595513670
• ISBN 13: 9780595513673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 108