Crime stories: Interview with a 31-year-old woman who was a victim of child sexual abuse and sexual assault. Many Experiences with Crime “I have many experiences with crime. Most of them, I’ve never reported to the police. They are very serious things. I have a sexual abuse past, with incest, maltreatment, and sexual assault. Both within the family and outside. When I was two, I was maltreated severely. I’m not entirely certain when the incest happened. I think I was 4, and ...
Crime Stories
Crime Stories: “The Worst Thing Was The Pain”
Crime stories: Interview with a 23-year-old man who was a victim of serious assault. “It happened last year July. We were at a party, it was like a village event. I was with my girlfriend and a couple of friends. It was almost at the end of the party, around 2 am, when I bumped into someone. The other person didn’t respond well, he got mad. I walked away with a friend of mine, but I got pushed in the back. I turned around and got punched in the face. I was out. They called ...
Crime Story: “A Lovestory Gone Wrong”
Real crime story: Interview with a 40-year-old woman who was a victim of intimate partner violence. Starting Point: Divorce “What happened was basically a lovestory that went wrong. I was married to my husband, the father of my three children, for almost 16 years. Things went downhill in the final three years of our marriage. But it wasn’t until I fell in love with someone else I had met online, that I finally plucked up the courage to end our marriage. My husband reacted ...