Episode
Frontline: To a Safer Place
Overview
When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her past-confronting her mother and other adults who failed to protect her, reuniting with her brothers and sister who were also brutally abused, and trying to make peace with the horror story that was her childhood.
Details
- Series
- Frontline
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1988-04-12
Episode context
To a Safer Place is Episode 14 in Season 6 of Frontline. It aired on 1988-04-12.
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