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In August 2014, porn actress Christy Mack was found crawling naked on the street outside her Las Vegas home with 18 broken bones, severed ear, missing teeth, and a ruptured liver. Her ex-boyfriend, MMA fighter Jon "War Machine" Koppenhaver, had broken in and spent hours beating her and a friend. She was 23. She had been dating him for over a year. He had told her he would kill her if he ever caught her with another man. He caught her with a friend watching a movie. The video below is her testimony from his trial in 2017, under her real name Christine Mackinday. The Las Vegas Review-Journal filmed it. She is calm. She points at Koppenhaver across the courtroom. She describes him beating the male friend unconscious first. Then turning on her. Making her undress. Trying to saw her hair off with a kitchen knife. Punching her until she couldn't see out of her left eye. Telling her he was going to make her ugly so nobody else would want her. He tried to rape her. She told him she had to go to the bathroom first. She jumped from the second floor window and ran naked down the street until a neighbour found her. Her injuries: 18 broken bones, broken nose in two places, fractured rib, ruptured liver, leaking spinal fluid, missing teeth, cuts requiring staples. The ear had to be surgically reattached. She has had multiple reconstructive surgeries since. Koppenhaver fled to Simi Valley, California and was arrested a week later after being recognized at a hotel. The jury took 4 hours to convict him on 29 counts. He was sentenced to life with possibility of parole after 36 years. Christy quit the industry in 2017. She now lives privately, does voice acting, and speaks about domestic violence when asked. She has said the hardest part was not the attack but how many people, including other performers, told her she had provoked him. She survived. Most women in that situation do not. How does an adult man beat a woman like this for hours and tell himself the whole time that she deserved it?

Michelle Knight was 21 when her friend's dad offered her a ride. She spent the next 11 years chained in his Cleveland house. Each time she got pregnant, he beat the baby out of her. Bugs ate at her skin. After 8 months without a shower, she didn't recognize herself in the mirror. His name was Ariel Castro. She still refuses to say it. She calls him "the dude." August 2002. She got in his car. Then into his house. Then into a room she wouldn't leave for over a decade. 8 months in, he let her near a sink and a mirror for the first time. Her white skin had turned brown. Dried blood, dirt and urine all over her body. Her hair stood up in every direction. Her eyes were bloodshot from months of crying. Deep purple and yellow bruises on both sides of her face from all the times he punched her in the head. "Is this really happening? Will I spend the rest of my life here?" She would. Chained. Starved. Beaten. At night the bugs crawled on her and ate at her skin while she lay there. In the video below she reads what she saw in that mirror. Did anyone look for her? Barely. Did she survive? Yes. 11 years later, in 2013. Did he pay? He got life plus 1,000 years. A month later he hanged himself in his cell. Some people will say he got off easy. Others will say the real question is how a whole street never noticed three women locked in one house for a decade. She walked out at 32. How do you even begin to live after that?

Katie Hill was 32 and one of the fastest-rising Democrats in Congress. Then nude photos of her were published without her consent. She resigned within weeks, and when she sued, a judge ordered her to pay about $220,000 to the people who had published them. The photos came out of her marriage to Kenneth Heslep. The Daily Mail ran images of her smoking a bong and kissing a woman. RedState reported she and her husband had been in a relationship with a female campaign worker, and accused her of an affair with a male congressional staffer, which she denied. In the video below, she gives her last speech on the House floor. “I’m leaving because of a misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching.” She says she was told there were “hundreds more photos” that would be released “bit by bit until they broke me down to nothing.” That day was the first time she had left her apartment since the pictures came out. “And I’m scared.” Then she turned to the White House. A man who “brags about his sexual predation,” she said, “sits in the highest office of the land.” Her last vote in Congress was to move forward with the impeachment of Donald Trump. She sued the Daily Mail, RedState’s editor and a radio producer, and lost. The bill came to about $105,000 for the Daily Mail’s parent company, about $84,000 for RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar and about $30,000 for producer Joseph Messina. She announced she would file for bankruptcy. Did Katie Hill lose her seat over a relationship she admitted, or over photos nobody should ever have seen?

"I was molested hundreds of times in my bed, including the night before competing in the Olympic Games." McKayla Maroney was 13 when the team doctor started. In 2015 she sat on her bedroom floor for nearly three hours and told the FBI everything, including Tokyo, where he gave her a sleeping pill on the plane when she was 15. It should have been over right there. Instead the agent went silent, then asked, "Is that all?" In the video below, she tells the Senate about that call. "I began crying at the memory over the phone, and there was just dead silence." "Is that all?" "My abuse was enough, and they wanted to cover it up." It got worse. The FBI didn't write up her interview for 17 months. When it finally did, the Justice Department's watchdog found the report "materially false." It put words in her mouth. While it sat in a drawer, the doctor, Larry Nassar, abused at least 70 more girls. The head of that FBI office was talking to USA Gymnastics about a job with the Olympic Committee at the same time. She settled with USA Gymnastics for $1.25 million. The deal reportedly carried a $100,000 penalty if she talked. The agent was fired. His boss retired. The Justice Department reviewed it twice and charged no one. The government paid the victims $138.7 million instead. Were those agents covering for a predator, or just bad at their jobs?

Nine men accused of taking part in or helping to facilitate the abuse of a woman, whose husband drugged and sexually assaulted her for over two decades, appeared in court for the start of their trial in Manchester, England. The nine men on trial deny all charges against them. Four other co-defendants have already pleaded guilty to sexual offenses. The husband pleaded guilty in September to multiple offenses against his wife. https://t.co/lnypP8TBsj

At 1 year old Beth Thomas was being abused by her own father and left for days with almost nothing to eat. At 19 months she was adopted by a pastor and his wife, who were told she was a normal, healthy baby. By 6 she was smashing her little brother's head into a concrete floor and her parents were locking her bedroom door every night to keep him alive. Thirty years later she's a nurse who takes care of newborns. In 1990 she sat in front of a therapist's camera and talked about killing her family like it was a story about someone else. In the video below 6-year-old Beth swings her legs in a pink dress and answers every question in the same small, flat voice, while the therapist across from her tries very hard not to react. She says her brother is afraid of her. She says her parents lock her door at night so she won't hurt him. Asked if she would, she says yes, at night, because she doesn't like them seeing her do it, "but they can feel me do it." Asked what she'd use, she says a knife. Asked if she sticks pins in her brother, she says a lot, and that she's trying to kill him. Then he asks why, and for one second you hear the little girl underneath it all: "Cuz I was hurt so bad." She had squeezed baby birds to death and hidden knives from the kitchen. Doctors said her brain had learned before she could talk that nobody was safe, so she would hurt everyone first. It took years of intense therapy and a new adoptive mother. Beth grew up, earned a nursing degree and now spends her days keeping babies alive. Was Beth a born monster, or proof that a child can come back from almost anything if someone finally refuses to give up on her?

Erin Andrews was filmed naked through the peephole of her hotel room by a stalker. The hotel had given him the room next door. Then he put the video online and nearly 17 million people watched it. Then people said she staged it. Then a jury put a price on it: $55 million. It was 2008. She was 30 and one of the best known faces at ESPN, working the sidelines of college football. Michael David Barrett, a man she had never met, followed her to 3 cities. In Nashville he called the Marriott at Vanderbilt University, confirmed she was staying there and asked for the room next to hers. He got it. Nobody called her to ask. He tampered with the peephole on her door, waited until the shower was turned off and filmed her for about 4 and a half minutes. He filmed her through a peephole in Columbus, Ohio too. In 2009 the video hit the internet. Before anyone knew who shot it, people online said she had set it up herself for attention. Barrett was caught, pleaded guilty and got 30 months in prison. In 2016 she sued him and the hotel's owner and operator for $75 million. She took the stand and broke down in front of the jury. The hotel's lawyers argued that her career had taken off since the video, and went through her endorsements one by one, Diet Mountain Dew included. That same week, comments on her Instagram still said she staged it. On March 7, 2016 the jury gave her $55 million. Barrett was found 51% at fault. The hotel side was found 49% at fault. She says copies of the video are still being posted. A stranger asked for the room next to a famous woman and the hotel handed it over. She says 1 phone call to her would have stopped all of it. Was the hotel guilty for handing a stalker the room next door, or should 1 man have paid for all of it?