No One Can Hurt Him Anymore

"While reading this book you keep asking yourself `why isn`t anybody doing anything ?`
I found myself becoming more and more angry as neighbours described - AFTER this little boy`s death - how unkempt, unhappy, tired, miserable and scared he always looked.
Another case of a child who slipped through the net and was failed, not only by the system, but by people around him every day, who could have saved him.
This book broke my heart - i desperately wanted to be there for him and rescue him....
Words fail me."
~ Written on 2008-01-11

"what got me stirred up was the fact that his real mother was not any better towards him i got very angry.I have been around foster children,storys these children sometimes have can nearly break your heart.RIP Andrew lots of people love you."
~ Written on 2007-07-17

"i have read hundreds of true crime stories but this one has stayed with me for a very long time. i am interested in child abuse books because they are so often kept secret. I feel it is only in the last few years that anyone has dared to write about it. A child called it seemed to open the flood gates and now we are seeing book after book about the subject. Although I think this is a great thing and will help us understand and watch out for the signs I wonder if this is motivated by money. I would stress not on the part of the victims but the publishers.
I have to applaud the writer of this book because i felt his pain and love for a.j and i feel the only reason he wrote the book was to honour aj s life. there has hardly been a day in the six months since i read this book that i have not thought about aj and the life that he led. i agree with another reviewer that it is the saddest book that i have ever read. another book that i have read recently is a beautiful child and i recommend that to anyone who found aj,s story fasinating but harrowing. I deceided only to read books where the child survived the abuse but i came across this book by accident and it has given me another
dreadful insight how our fellow human beings can inflict pain and degregation on someone for a long period of time "
~ Written on 2007-05-22

"I'm a huge fan of true crime books and thought this one looked like a very good read, i wasn't wrong. But I didn't realise how very sad and upsetting it would be. I could'nt put it down, even though the subject was very hard to take in. It makes you want to physically do something for that poor little boy, and i can totally understand how fustrating it must have been for people who wanted to do something, but had to stay within the law. I can only imagine what went through Aj's little mind day in and day out as he was forced to endure a life with such an evil woman, it breaks my heart to think that he must've thought no-one cared enough to save him. She is where she belongs, and Aj is at peace, no doubt being loved by angels. This book will stay with you long after you've finished reading it."
~ Written on 2007-03-10

"i have read a lot of true crime and this one has affected me the most. the poor child had a rotten life . i cried on and off the whole way through this book . be warned it is very sad. "
~ Written on 2006-09-09