Disabled Leeds women reveal heartbreaking stories of sexual and physical abuse
The problems facing disabled women in accessing services for abuse victims.
“I was raped when I was just coming up to my 18th birthday and he physically and mentally abused me … it happened not just to me, it happened to three other people.”
Those are the disturbing words of a 48-year-old Leeds woman called Lucy, recounting her time at a college for people with learning difficulties in the 1980s.
Lucy’s is just one of several harrowing accounts given by disabled woman in the city for a research project that lays bare the difficulties many have in escaping sexual and physical abuse at the hands of partners and carers.
