I’m all for writing a book with your rapist. But on one condition.
For anyone who didn’t tune into Monday night’s “All About Women” episode of Q&A, let me recap:
One of the five women on the panel last night was Icelandic writer and advocate Thordis Elva. You might know her as the woman writing a book with the Australian man who raped her.
Some 17 years ago, Elva’s then teenage boyfriend Tom Stranger sexually assaulted her while she was drunk to the point of incapacitation. It’s a blindingly painful memory she relives with “horror and betrayal”.
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FYI, the book's website now says: Tom will be donating any profits he receives to a women's shelter in Reykjavik. Tom will not profit from his involvement in South of Forgiveness.
As far as I know there is no statute of limitations on an Australian committing sex crimes overseas. Can't he still be charged, convicted and hopefully jailed? A two-hour violent rape is pretty damn serious.