What if your attacker became your lawyer

Today The Guardian published the most mind-boggling story I've ever written.

This story contains descriptions of emotional and sexual abuse.

Illustration: Ángel Hernández/The Guardian

What if your attacker became your lawyer – and you didn’t know it?

Yifen Chen says her boyfriend raped her. But when she tried to seek help, he pushed her straight into a Machiavellian maze from which there was no way out.

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