Showing results for "Sexual Abuse" in True Crime

Valarie Clark Miller seemed to have it all. Smart and beautiful with a wealthy, successful husband and growing family, Valarie appeared to be the picture-perfect Mormon wife. But it was all a façade. Inside, she was crumbling from the pressures of long-repressed memories of a childhood filled with sexual and physical abuse.

The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that, since the 1990s, up to 1,400 young girls in the town had...

When Misty was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence. When Misty reached her teens, her parents feared she and her sister would escape and took them to an Amish community where they were adopted and became baptized members. Misty was devastated to once again find herself in a world of fear, animal cruelty, and sexual abuse.

Dez de setembro de 2016. A atendente do drive-thru de uma lanchonete em Ramos, no subúrbio do Rio de Janeiro, sai da cabine para entregar o lanche ao cliente de um Jetta branco. Quando o vidro escuro é baixado, a jovem vê um homem de cabelo branco ao volante e, no carona, uma menina que aparenta não ter mais que dois anos. A cena seria corriqueira se não fosse insólita: o motorista é Pedro Chavarry Duarte, coronel reformado da Polícia Militar do Rio de Janeiro, que no dia seguinte estaria em todos os telejornais, acusado de estupro de vulnerável.

Menschen, die sich daran erfreuen, andere zu quälen, ihnen Schmerz oder Leid zuzufügen, nennen wir Sadisten. Aber sie sind nicht alle gleich: Die Sadisten, die ihre Neigung als erotische Spielart oder Präferenz ausleben, lassen sich klar unterscheiden von jenen, die ihre Gewalt- und Tötungsfantasien nicht kontrollieren können, bis hin zu grausamsten Straftaten an unschuldigen Opfern. Als Straftäterpsychologin und Ermittlungsberaterin bei Kriminalfällen, als Szene-Insider und Therapeutin ist Lydia Benecke an Tätern wie Opfern nah dran.

A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her husband through coercive control and continual physical and sexual abuse. Broken in mind, body and spirit and completely isolated from the rest of the world, Hannah thinks she’ll never find the...

Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley, 13, has been sectioned under the mental health act after attempting suicide. She was spotted climbing the railings on a footbridge that crossed a busy motorway and pulled to safety by...

The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret. Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his arms, legs and body. Experienced foster...

‘Asperger’s made me a prisoner in my own home. When I finally entered the real world, evil was waiting.’ A shocking true account of one girl’s harrowing journey to survival. Sophie Crockett spent most of her childhood suffering from crippling anxiety. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome...

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand...

In this news-breaking narrative, decades of women who brought down sexual predator Larry Nassar offer groundbreaking new insight, with the first known survivor and many others sharing their stories exclusively for the first time. We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of...