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Written in free-style poetry, a novella, Self's Stony Soil reveals the horrors of sex trafficking. A child is trafficked. Taken by airplanes to other countries, she was packed tight into cages, abused by politicians, the wealthy, royalty, and known people in the world. She has amnesia until late in life. That begins the healing of these deep scars. She begins to find her true self. This is her story. "Self's Stony Soil speaks to the lifelong consequences to victims of sex trafficking and their efforts to reclaim their humanity and autonomy. Sex trafficking robs the individual of free will. ...

Lost Innocence pulls back the curtain on the chaos, fear, and institutional failure that plagued a city in crisis. With meticulous research and powerful storytelling, Marissa Grant revisits the lives stolen, the families shattered, and the controversial investigation that left more questions than answers.

Unravel the chilling true story of Jeffrey Epstein—a financier turned predator whose life of wealth, power, and perversion shocked the world. Dive into the definitive biography of Jeffrey Epstein, tracing his meteoric rise from a Brooklyn dropout to a Wall Street prodigy, and his descent into one of history’s most notorious sex trafficking scandals. The Enigma of Jeffrey Epstein: A Life of Power, Perversion, and Mystery exposes the untold secrets behind his empire—private islands, elite connections, and a black book brimming with names like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew.

Abandonnées dès leur naissance, les jumelles Isabelle et Mireille Grenier sont restées à la crèche plus de deux ans sans que personne les adopte...jusqu'à ce qu'un couple décide de les accueillir. L'histoire aurait pu se terminer là et avoir une fin heureuse, mais ce fut loin d'être le cas....

The notion of children killing other children is one of the most disturbing realities in our society. It shatters the perception of childhood innocence, revealing the complexity and darkness that can sometimes lie beneath the surface. While such crimes are rare, their impact is devastating, leaving families, communities, and society at large searching for answers. This book delves into the troubling phenomenon of child-on-child murder, exploring the psychological, social, and environmental factors that lead children to commit such horrific acts. We will examine the motives behind these ...

La perturbadora crónica de uno de los sucesos más estremecedores de los últimos tiempos, plasmado por Carles Porta. Le llamaban padre porque creían que aquel era el precio a pagar por tener una familia. En un pequeño pueblo de Lleida, vivían David Donet y los adolescentes que tenía en acogida. Allí se descubrieron decenas de imágenes y vídeos que demostraban que el responsable de los menores había abusado sexualmente de ellos durante 17 años. Carles Porta reconstruye un relato de los sucesos que, lejos de caer en el morbo, revelan cómo el horror puede convertirse en normalidad.

'Cazaré al monstruo por ti' es, sobre todo, la historia del compromiso de un puñado de policías con unas niñas, víctimas de un depredador sexual, y también es la historia de la mayor caza del hombre desencadenada nunca en Madrid, la Operación Candy. En 2014, la Brigada de Policía Judicial de Madrid se enfrentó a un reto gigantesco: un tipo que raptaba niñas a plena luz del día, las retenía durante horas y las agredía sexualmente.

Reports indicate that one in twenty children in the UK are being sexually abused at any one time. One in six boys will be sexually abused by the time he is sixteen. One in three children will never tell of their abuse due to ninety percent of child sex abusers being known to the child.

My story is the subject of a documentary on Discovery Plus. I become a police informant, telling authorities of my plan to obtain a taped confession from my ex-husband. He is using his position of power for his own dirty pleasures. I leave him and then learn of many more years of sexual battery in another state. I know what I must do. My heart is torn between the love I had for him and my need to seek justice for his crimes. I find it difficult to interact with him knowing the evil man he is, but I persevere. This saga plays out over an eight-year period.

Though her name was not divulged, viewers would learn that she was hit over the head near the entrance of her home, abducted, sexually assaulted, and forced into the trunk of her own car. News cameras would capture footage of Michelle’s personal items strewn across the lawn around her home and along the wooded area behind a local restaurant. The community would breathe a sigh of relief after learning that she had somehow survived and that the assailants had been caught, ending a string of similar crimes. But there is so much more to the story.

When Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault in 2018, the verdict sent shock waves around the globe. Some were outraged that a beloved icon of family values, the man dubbed "America's dad", had been accused, let alone convicted. Others were stunned because they had waited so long to see justice; in accusations going back decades, more than 60 women recounted how they'd been drugged, raped, and assaulted at Cosby's hands. Andrea Constand is just one of these women, but her case could still be criminally prosecuted.

In September 1973, Stephen Downing was convicted and indefinitely sentenced for the murder of Wendy Sewell, a young legal secretary in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District. Wendy was attacked in broad daylight in Bakewell Cemetery. Stephen Downing, the 17-year-old groundskeeper with learning difficulties and a reading age of 11, was the primary suspect. He was immediately arrested, questioned for nine hours, without a solicitor present, and pressured into signing a confession full of words he did not understand.

For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all their usual tactics to catch the ‘Clifton Rapist’, and public pressure was mounting. In 1979, a daring new plan was introduced. A small group of young female officers – some aged just 18 – put their lives on the line, walking the quiet residential roads late at night, acting as bait. Drawing on in-depth research and first-hand interviews with the women at the heart of the operation, Decoy is a dramatic retelling of one of the most groundbreaking agent provocateur stings in British history.

For many years, Newcastle was the centre of an extensive paedophile network run by members of the Anglican church – and protected by parishioners and community members who looked the other way. In this gripping audiobook, Anne Manne reveals how this network was able to avoid detection for so long, and how its ringleaders were finally exposed and brought to justice. At the centre of the story is a survivor, Steve Smith, who endured years of childhood abuse but refused to be silenced.

Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of "best" friendships and their growing sexuality. Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large.

While the celebrity victims of Dr. Larry Nassar and the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandals rightly got a lot of attention, the number of affected kids is far more numerous in swimming. Underwater tells the almost unbelievable story, in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East, of coaches who preyed on children while hopping from program to program, state to state, and even country to country, in a pattern similar to the pedophile priests of the Catholic Church.

This is the story of a girl raised into exploitation who wakes up one night, when she is 14, in the middle of the hardcore porn industry. Faced with the worst version of herself on the screen before her, in a moment of shattering light, Jewell must decide if she will continue going with the flow or if she will fight to become a better version of herself.

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.

Her only way to survive is to start believing in herself. “I know it’s scary and I’m trying to explain to you, that when you’re scared, this is how you need to move. You need to look at the object and advance, you can’t stand still. Those who stand still get killed, and you can’t stop. Understand? They get killed. They kill them: he stops – he’s killed, he stops – he’s killed. You can’t stop, even if it’s terrifying, even if it’s really, really scary. It’s a very good practice in war and in life. You can’t let fear make you freeze, you need to walk, go straight...

In April 1989, a white woman who came to be known as the 'Central Park jogger' was brutally raped and severely beaten, her body left crumpled in a ravine. Amid the staggering torrent of media coverage and public outcry that ensued, exposing the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time, five teenagers were quickly apprehended - four black and one Hispanic. All five confessed, were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim.