Has anyone seen this?


In the 1960's the four sisters then surviving -- Emilie died in 1954 at age 20-- told their often bitter story in a book titled "We Were Five." But there was no mention of sexual abuse until the new book, "The Dionne Quintuplets: Family Secrets."

The mistreatment the women now describe took place as young teens, after they rejoined the family in the 1940's at the age of nine.

The incidents of sexual abuse occurred when they went for car rides with their father, the sisters said. Their father took them for rides one at a time, and touched them in a sexual way, they said.

The sisters never told their mother "so as not to aggravate the situation," Annette said. But when they did try to discuss the abuse with a school chaplain. Annette said, they were told "to continue to love our parents and wear a thick coat when we went for car rides." (THAT'S his advice????!!!!!)

Other brothers and sisters of the quintuplets are denying that their father ever abused any of his children.