I was 12 when I first called Childline from a phone box.

Damien beat me up and I fell on to our daughter’s bedroom floor beside a box of nappies. That broke me.

Todd Grimshaw is in danger.

Todd Grimshaw is in danger.

37 years on from his first attack on me, he’s rotting in jail.

My story is one of many, yet too often silenced by cultural stigma and fear.

Children deserve to be children; they shouldn’t ever have to be dealing with this.

I don’t believe he will stop until my child turns 16.

I don’t believe he will stop until my child turns 16.

Growing up in the idyllic country village of Wethersfield in Essex, Ambrosine Davies wasn’t prepared for the manic scenes she saw in Los Angeles when she moved there nearly a decade ago.

Miles Asteri is ready to tell his story.

I told myself that he’d never hit me. He was always so shocked by the idea of a man hitting a woman.

I wanted to go home and to be looked after – but that was a huge mistake’

‘The world is dimmer without you in it,’ she wrote.

When nurses queried my injuries, instead of the truth, I’d say I’d had a seizure or fallen over.

The mum of two’s husband has been charged with her murder.

The mum of two’s husband has been charged with her murder.

A woman who was tortured for ten hours after being kept against her will told a court she thought she was going to die during the ordeal.

37 years on from his first attack on me, he’s rotting in jail.

One woman was asked by an officer whether she thought it was a good idea to report her assault.

I just want to be rid of him, to be free.

I just want to be rid of him, to be free.

It is the ultimate control you can exert on another human being.

The judge described him as a ‘highly manipulative, misogynistic, narcissistic and thoroughly evil individual’

I still have a little piece of my ear missing, because my mother would bite it sometimes.