The Other Victims

Stories from the Invisible Victims of One Man’s Crimes

"Something is wrong. I know it the moment I see Mum at school pickup."

For sixteen-year-old Isabel, life was defined by the steady presence of her father—a man who helped with homework, played golf on Saturdays, and sat every morning at the family's breakfast bar. But in a single afternoon, that world is tilted off its axis. Her father is charged with the unthinkable: the indecent assault of the little girl next door.

The Other Victims is a searingly honest exploration of the collateral damage of abuse. Moving through the decades following the initial arrest, the story is told through a kaleidoscope of voices: the daughter struggling to reconcile the man she loved with the "monster" he became; the wife caught between loyalty and the shattering of her marriage; and the neighbours left to wonder how such darkness could live behind a familiar fence.

From the imposing bluestone walls of Pentridge Prison to the quiet, agonizing isolation of a nursing home, Isabel Wright traces the ripples of a single person’s actions as they tear through a family and a community. This is not a story of a single crime, but of the long, slow process of surviving its aftermath. It is a testament to the fact that when a life is built on a lie, the truth doesn't just hurt—it changes everything.