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Warning - child abuse. To not understand why this woman is not the social pariah she should be?

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Decemberweeds · 07/12/2025 14:15

Started reading an article in a magazine about home and Christmas when I realised it was written by India Knight. Presumably PR for the new lifestyle book she’s written called ‘Home’.

India Knight shares a home with convicted sex offender Eric Joyce, who was found guilty in 2015 possessing films showing the sexual abuse of children as young as 12 months old. Babies. The film was classified as “Category A” (the most serious category for indecent images of children), meaning it involved penetrative sexual abuse of very young children. Yet she is still with him. At the time of his conviction she had a daughter age around 11.

Why the fuck would anyone want to read a book about home written by someone who CHOOSES to share their home with a man who likes watching babies being sexually abused? Why is someone like her given any air time at all? Completely get that she was probably unaware of her partners perversions and not judging her for that but completely judging her for staying especially as the mother of a young girl herself.

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minipie · 07/12/2025 14:40

Bigearringsbigsmile · 07/12/2025 14:31

Her daughter has special needs. She went to live with her father so that india could carry on living with the abuser.

Jesus. So not only has she stayed with him but she chose him over her daughter.

She must know where the bodies are buried or else surely she’d have been ditched by now.

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Decemberweeds · 07/12/2025 14:35

Trees6 · 07/12/2025 14:25

Are they definitely still together? Did she make a statement at the time?

I believe they’re still together, yes. I don’t think she has ever made a statement.

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Decemberweeds · 07/12/2025 14:33

I’ve seen her novels and writing in newspapers in the years since his conviction and wondered how she still has a career but this - a book on what makes a house a home written by a woman who lives with a convicted sex offender who watched children being abused - is beyond a joke.

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Bigearringsbigsmile · 07/12/2025 14:31

Her daughter has special needs. She went to live with her father so that india could carry on living with the abuser.

Trees6 · 07/12/2025 14:25

Are they definitely still together? Did she make a statement at the time?

MouseCheese87 · 07/12/2025 14:23

Never heard of her or know anything about her but based off what you've said, hard agree. Sounds revolting.

MincePudding · 07/12/2025 14:21

Yanbu. I got rid of her books because it made me think of him and child abuse which wasn't very jolly.

I also have the ick for sentences like: "you would just eat it, no?"

Because one of her books used it a lot and i can't disassociate from it. I know that's a me problem but even so. How you could ever want to move past what he did is beyond me.

It'll no doubt come back to haunt her when her daughter has a kid and she feels repulsed by her mother's poor judgement because I think even putting aside access to a grandchild, she will come to judge her mother so harshly that their relationship will breakdown.

SparklyRedZebra · 07/12/2025 14:20

Couldn’t agree more OP. Watch this thread magically disappear though, it’s a topic that can’t be spoken about here. Money obviously talks.

MrsSkylerWhite · 07/12/2025 14:19

Immediately knew your thread would be about that woman.
Why the hell would a publisher take her on?

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Decemberweeds · 07/12/2025 14:19

Just to add, I find this particularly disgraceful in light of the fact that authors like JK Rowling who speak up for women’s rights are cancelled and threatened, with some bookshops refusing to stock their work.

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PantaloonMad · 07/12/2025 14:17

I didn’t know this! That’s absolutely revolting.