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Woman’s Hour today - Trigger warning - terrible child abuse

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ScrollingLeaves · 01/12/2022 11:32

I was not sure if there is another thread, but couldn’t find one.

We heard the testament of a now grown woman who was abducted off the street, raped, strangled and left for dead in roadside undergrowth age seven. She is speaking out now the man who did this has died, as now she feels free enough to do so as he can’t find her or have knowledge about her.

Although she has married and has a family she is now unable to go out.

This interview with Emma Barnett is really the most harrowing and upsetting thing I’ve ever heard.

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nauticant · 01/12/2022 11:55

She deserves applause for her courage and wanting people to hear her story. But what a desperately sad listen. Hearing about how after 30 years the trauma is now causing particular damage to her is just heart breaking.

I see that following the programme the fundraiser done on her behalf leapt up and met its target.