Survivors report: child abuse and the dark truth of a network

Survivors report: child abuse and the dark truth of a network

Belgien - an unimaginable suffering that can hardly be put into words: Sabine A. from Salzburg, who has been sexually abused as a child, breaks her silence to give other victims. After long years of mourning and pain, she has caught the courage to show her tormentor - but the punishment for the perpetrator was hardly appropriate. "My life was destroyed forever," complains the 35-year-old, who reports as a normal woman in a shy voice about her traumatic experiences. In her authentic testimony, which was published in the "Krone" crime magazine, she describes the daily struggle with the mental wounds that left the abuse. She wants to draw attention to the suffering of victims and clarify that the consequences of such acts accompany them for life.

another cruel reality

But the story of Sabine A. is not the only shocking chronicle. Anneke Lucas, who fell victim to a pedophile network in Belgium as a child, also raises her voice and breaks the silence over the misery she suffered. It was introduced to this horrific system at the age of six, which was operated by powerful men, among them also politicians. "In the five and a half years in which I was abused, sex with children was not the only cruel deed that took place. There were also killings," reports Lucas. Her authentic stories recently became known in an interview in which she clarifies that many of the perpetrators continue to live among us and many of them are socially accepted.

These terrifying reports open up to disturbing insights into a world that remains invisible to many. While Sabine A. spends the courage to talk about her pain, Anneke Lucas encourages the extent of child trade and sexual exploitation, which are deeply anchored in our society, as Kla.tv reported . Such open voices are important to illuminate the darkness that many victims have had to endure for decades and to find clear ways to healing and justice.