“Winter's last rain and a light I don't recognize through the trees and I come back in my mind to the man… — Bruce Weigl Copy Share Image
“The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them.… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, &… — Shannon N. Baugher Copy Share Image
“Stephanie had been raped, beaten and left for dead on the Atlantic City Boardwalk several times. You'd think she would have hit… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“In 2011, actor Johnny Depp told the November issue of Vanity Fair that he felt participating in a photoshoot was akin to… — Emma Elsworth Copy Share Image
“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought,… — Joan Smith Copy Share Image
“The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Women are lot more stronger then men, not just mentally but even physically, not only do they look beautiful in any form,… — honeya Copy Share Image
“Why Is It So Important to Remember? When you were abused, those around you acted as if it weren’t happening. Since no… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unescorted. You… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“We don’t necessarily know how to hear stories about any kind of violence, because it is hard to accept that violence is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes for child sex and sexual abuse… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“They say rape is the practice of sexual intercourse without consent but in my case, I did consent. I knew it wasn’t… — Lunga Noélia Izata Copy Share Image
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Police recording of false allegations of rape: "The data on the pro formas limit the extent to which one can assess the… — Liz Kelly Copy Share Image
“FORGET FERES DOCTRINE And the military has immunity! Yes! The feres doctrine! It states “the Government is not liable under the Federal… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“It is desirable that the inmate should not have at all, or if he does, should immediately himself suppress nocturnal dreams whose… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“When I was in college, a teacher once said that all women live by a ‘rape schedule.’ I was baffled by the… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
In certain states there's a statute of limitation on women who have been raped. How do you do that to a woman?… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
“They say a writer is not a single person, it is a bunch of characters. What I learned from life is that… — Himanshu Chhabra Copy Share Image
“I should have seen it coming.” The words don’t surprise me, but they piss me off. I pull away and glare down… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George Lucas did to your childhood. Rape is not what happens… — Jeffrey Rowland Copy Share Image
“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“As I faced each tragedy in my life, I learned to reach into the depth of my soul for strength and determination.… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parameters of the syndrome, nor… — Trouble and Strife Copy Share Image
You can be a victim of a crime and not exercise great judgment. And when women have been sexually assaulted, they feel… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
“MALE I AM ASHAMED "Male, I am ashamed today to be or not to be. Seeing your pleasures gained with bleeding stains.… — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
“When there is inconsistency in belief and action (such as being violated by someone who is supposed to love you) our mind… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles;… — Glenn L. Pace Copy Share Image