This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. The woman is attached to a black leather medical table by red nylon scraps attached to every limb. She is blinded and muted with duct tape.

On that floor with that metal bar that he used to strangle her with

and that puddle of blood.

It just looked like too much blood to come out of a tiny little eight-year-old.

Being raped at gunpoint, like, what else do you do? Like, you can't do anything,

and it's two men against one woman. And I probably, you know, I weigh 98 pounds.

So it's not like I can take them down myself and I wasn't about to rust the gun out of their hand.

I was just trying to do it. Hello, welcome to human monsters. Today we are joined by a guest who is going by the alias Simbeline.

She was a victim of horrific domestic violence dealt by the hand of her ex-husband.

It's not easy living with the human monster and she has suffered serious

consequences emotionally, physically, and legally. The abuse continues to haunt her to this day, but she is a stronger

woman now and has found happiness just when it seemed it would elude her

indefinitely. If you have been abused, I hope you find her story

inspiring and compelling. I know I do.

Okay, so thank you very much for doing this show and for the purposes of the program.

Our guest today has chosen to identify by an alias, so I'm going to identify her as symboline.

Welcome to the show Simbeline.

Thank you.

And what we're here to discuss right now is domestic violence.

Simpling has experienced domestic violence as a victim.

And so I'm going to actually go back to the beginning when you met the assailant, the perpetrator.

So describe the kind of the relationship you had with this person?

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