This is very topical due to all the people coming forward at the moment to tell their stories.
After Jenny's book was published lots of friends told of their experiences of abuse. Here is a collection of these tales told compassionately from someone who has been there and experienced it. As well as highlighting the range of abuse around, it also highlights how the systems at the time let them down very badly. The people who did the abusing were someone seeking a vulnerable single mum, someone seeking a young gay guy to con into group activities, woman v woman, a brother, a grandfather, a priest, a wife abusing her husband, a teenage daughter abusing her mother, a family friend, a person giving AIDS to another, being forced into an arranged marriage, rape in marriage, and a case of serious assault but not rape. Amazingly these people survived and went on to have successful lives but the memories will always haunt them.
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