SYNOPSIS

FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD is a story about Sarah, a domestic violence victim, who battles for the right to be rid of her violent and abusive ex-partner and to bring up her children in a loving and safe environment.  It is a work of fiction, based on the true story of Sharon Ann Kilby Sharon@kilby18.freeserve.co.uk  It is a story which rings true for many women.

Sarah is the mother of four children aged ten, eight, nineteen months and four months.  After a three year rocky relationship she finally plucks up the courage to leave her fiancé Greg, but he is a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ control freak, hell bent on revenge who pursues her with merciless intent and savage brutality.

She finds the police incompetent and ineffective in their ability to deal with her ex, the Court Welfare officer too ‘neutral’ and, to her horror, that the Social Services are siding with Greg and ganging up on her.

She becomes aware that her children, also victims of child abuse, are repeatedly framed by the Police and Council in a bid to assist Greg in his desire to have her older children removed into ‘care’ and to gain custody of their two babies.

In her fight for truth and support she learns that history is repeating itself - Greg’s ex-wife Cara, who is still intimidated and harassed by Greg, also suffered ‘battered wife’ syndrome and was denied all contact to her children because of unscrupulous Authorities.  Her children were brought up by Greg abused, terrified and oppressed and everyone within the social and school welfare system failed to protect them.

Sarah and her children experience what they perceive to be a Spiritual enlightenment.  As a result they believe that the way to right wrongs on a personal level and also on a global one is through total faith and allegiance to God and not just in the sense of prayer, but more importantly, by taking practical, more courageous measures.

The family find themselves up against an unfair justice system in a corrupt, male-dominated world.  As a result her children end up registered ‘At Risk’ and the family are then unjustly and wrongfully badgered by a whole range of child welfare experts and psychiatrists.

Sarah battles to expose those who have wronged her.  Having no confidence in the Media and distrusting the postal system she resorts to printing up her story in her own newsletter and going door to door delivering it in her home town.

The result is phenomenal.  Public support is immense and news of her experiences and of shady authorities travels fast.  The outcome of this long hard struggle is that Greg’s son, Lee, tells Sarah a bigger, more murkier story - that of the secret, seedy society of Manumits.  The Manumits are a brotherhood comprising the most influential, powerful members of society - their allegiance being the protection of brethren at all costs.  They trample on and ‘fix’ other people’s lives despite the fact that they are breaking all the laws of the land.  Because of his troubled conscience and his love for God, Lee, an ex-Manumit, risks his life in a bid to protect his younger half-brother and half-sister from the same abuse that was inflicted on him by their father. 

Throughout, conspiracies and cover up abound concerning Lee and his sister and Sarah’s children.  But, due to Lee’s brave actions, the question of institutionalised corruption within the Manumit set-up is eventually brought into the spotlight and the beginning of the end is nigh for Satan’s wicked plan to rule the world.

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