"Purple Turtles" by Kayleigh and Kevin Mooney

“Purple Turtles” In this children’s story, a sea turtle suffers assault, turning her brown shell purple – the only purple turtle in the sea. Though scared and ashamed, with courage, she returns to the beach of her birth to a complete surprise…and finds the secret to her beauty in her purple shell and in the courage to use her voice. The back story for this children’s book relates to a dynamic, amazing young woman, Kayleigh Mooney, who was living an incredible and empowered life. Then, at 14, she survived a brutal assault. With the strength of 1,000 women she reported immediately, prosecuted, put a perpetrator in jail and became a legend - using her recovery to make her more beautiful. Fully empowered and continuing to live an amazing, happy, dynamic life, at 15, in a shocking and unrelated event, she was tragically struck by a car while innocently trying to cross a street, her life transitioning from her physical to her spiritual life in her father’s arms, listening to the comfort of h