Rebecca was sold into sexual slavery before she could walk. Her father - a Lockheed Martin contractor with CIA connections - gave her to a man she calls "Mr. E" as a newborn baby. Mr. E ran a child pornography ring, and Rebecca became his product. From birth to age seven, she was drugged with ketamine, flown across the country, and passed between groups of men who filmed themselves doing things to her that would make a courtroom go silent.
Her mother wasn't a victim in this. Her mother was part of it. She beat Rebecca unconscious and sexually abused her herself. The woman who gave birth to her helped deliver her into hell.
In the interview, Rebecca says it out loud, and the room stops breathing. They violated her with objects. They shoved a loaded gun in her mouth. They forced a loaded gun inside her body. She was three. They filmed everything.
But that's not the detail that breaks her. She watched children die. During these filmed sessions, other kids were murdered in front of her. Their deaths were turned into content - sexualized, recorded, distributed. And after, the men would look down at her and say: if you ever tell anyone what happened here, you're next.
They choked her until she passed out. They suffocated her until her body stopped fighting. They dragged her to the edge of death again and again because watching a child almost die was entertainment to them. She says she learned what dying felt like before she learned how to read.
At seven, they threw her away. She wasn't rescued. No one came for her. She simply got too old for their taste. Seven years old and already used up.
She's 53 now. Fifty years later, and not one person from that network has been investigated. She looks into the camera and asks the only question that matters - how did every single one of them walk free?
This woman spent half a century carrying the memory of children being killed in front of her. She was drugged, filmed, violated with weapons, and discarded before she understood what a childhood was supposed to look like. And the people who did it? They're still out there. Living normal lives. Untouched.
Depression and anxiety can fuck you up so badly that you stop living for yourself. You’re just staying alive because your mother would never recover from losing you and your pet wouldn’t understand why you never came home.
One of these women is a multiple Olympic medal-winning athlete; the other is a "superfan".
One of these gets sponsored to travel the world, and all her expenses are paid by the government and agencies to sit on the sidelines and hope the camera shows her for a few seconds.
The other has to swim for another country now because her own country apparently doesn't have enough money for her elite training or to reward her for the achievements and pride she's brought this nation.
Make it make sense.