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The Second Victim: Daisy's Story

By: Daisy, Emma Barnaby
Narrated by: Daisy
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In this Audible Original Podcast, we hear the story of Daisy - a black baby adopted into a white family in rural 1970’s England. Alienation and loss of identity dominate her childhood.

After discovering she was conceived through child rape, she begins a lifelong mission to find and prosecute her birth father using the only irrefutable evidence left. Her own DNA.

But justice isn’t just for her birth mother. She too, is a victim, and when the world around her doesn’t agree, she is forced to reckon with external and internal powers out of her control.

Content Warning: There are references to child sexual abuse, suicide and there is also strong language and racist language at times. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 1: Born a Crime Scene

Daisy struggles with the glare of attention she receives as the only black child in her community. Then she discovers the truth behind her adoption.

Episode 2: The Missing Mother

Amid an exciting new life in London, Daisy begins to search for her birth mother, Grace. If she can just meet her, maybe Daisy will be able to make more sense of who she is in the world.

Episode 3: The Missing Father

After a difficult reunion, Grace and Daisy try to get to know each other, but it’s harder than expected. Feeling she has nothing left to lose, Daisy decides to find out once and for all who her birth father is.

Episode 4: The Watershed

The relationship between Grace and Daisy comes to a gut-wrenching halt and Daisy is confronted with some destabilising realisations about her adoption. Then a national scandal drives her on a furious mission to seek justice for her birth father’s crime.

Episode 5: Vexatious

Daisy turns detective as she tries to uncover her birth father’s identity. Armed with a mountain of new evidence, she’s confident of bringing a prosecution against him.

Episode 6: The Power of Rage

Daisy reaches breaking point. Just as she feels she’s exhausted all options, a television interview turns the tables.

Episode 7: I Am Not Your Shame

Justice is served, but Daisy’s wounds still go deep. She diverts her anger into a campaign to change the law. And she begins to address her own trauma.

Episode 8: Roots

Daisy is coming to terms with the true impact of being trans-racially adopted. Having never had a sense of her black Jamaican identity, she makes a journey to uncover her ancestry which will become one of the most transformative experiences of her life.

For further listening and reading on the topics covered in this series, Daisy recommends the following podcasts and books – all available on Audible or Amazon.

PODCASTS

DAWTA The podcast

Adoptees On

Adoptees Crossing Lines

BOOKS

You Don’t Look Adopted by Anne Heffron

You Are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown

Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll

Child Sexual Abuse In Black And Minoritised Communities edited by Aisha K.Gill & Hannah Begum

If you have been affected by any of the themes in the series please find below details of organisations that can help you:

www.pac-uk.org/our-services/adopted-adults

adultadoptee.org.uk

www.thedunbarproject.org.uk

howtobeadopted.com

www.familyconnect.org.uk

listenupresearch.org

www.womensaid.org.uk

rapecrisis.org.uk

www.blackmindsmatteruk.com

Samaritans - call 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie (or the Samaritans Welsh Language Line is 0808 164 0123)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK - 0800 689 5652

SANEline - If you're experiencing a mental health problem call 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10.30pm every day).

Other international crisis helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org

Producer: Raw TV

Now available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.

©2020 Audible, Ltd. (P)2020 Audible, Ltd.
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A must for Adoptees

it's a real insight into Daisy's life having been conceived from rape and adopted. A must read for anyone not being reared by birth parents or people studying sociology. it's a little long but interesting.

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Tragic Story

Daisy's experience is heartbreaking and tragic. It's unfortunate but it does come accross as self centred and angry mostly and lacks empathy for the people who were part of the story.

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I had to stop

Sad story but could have been alot worse.. Daisy comes across as self centred and disregards others feelings and trauma in the story.

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I couldn’t stop listening…..

Well, there’s a few reasons. One, I’m mixed race, the same age and was brought up in very white area so I had similar experiences, although not adopted. Also the narrator sounded like me. 😊 Two, my Mum was adopted by a white family in the 1930s. So many of her mostly terrible and sometimes positive adult experiences were explained by this book, by which I mean, abandonment and subsequent trans-racial adoption led to poor relationship choices with men. Bi-polar didn’t help. Anyway, thanks so much Daisy. This is an invaluable listen and I thank you so much for sharing your experience.xx

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Heart wrenching

Just amazing, brave and victorious. A brutal and gripping account of a tragic story. What a woman!

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Utmost respect.

This is a thought provoking, reflective, truthful and enlightening listen. The importance of knowing your roots, being loved, understood and listened to can easily be taken for granted. We have to fight hard and dig deep to make changes in life and law. Thank you for all that is imparted in this story. Respect.

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Brilliant

Thank you Daisy for sharing your story for being so open and honest. I pray you find some inner peace xx

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Raw honesty

Outstanding, mind blowing story told beautifully. Highly recommend this wonderful piece of painful work. Wow

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How far our understanding has come in 50 years

Such a difficult true story to listen to. The impact of the crime committed runs on and on causing untold heartache! I felt for the adoptive family too, there is very little empathy for the adoptive parents who thought they were giving a child a solid and loving home!

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Daisy,

Your strength and resilience is incredible 💜

I hope you now live with more calm

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