[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

The assurances of known torturers, many of whom deny the use of torture even when it is widely documented, are not worth the paper they are written on.

Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.

In all the years I've been doing victims' advocacy, I've never had a victim call me and say they were relieved and gratified that the man that sodomized them is supposed to pray more now.