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I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded. Right, quick, quick, quick, because we've got a big one for you guys today. If you haven't voted, still.

I don't know. What other... Just take a long look at yourself. Exactly.

Is the only thing I've got to say about that. Take a long look at yourself and decide, is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to be?

Please guys, just go, give us a vote. Really simple, link is in the episode description. Click vote, verify, and that's it really. Any news from you, Hannah?

No. Excellent, because today's story has been one of the hardest to research for me. Not just because there's very little information out there, but because what is out there is just so horrific.

So thank you to everyone in the Facebook group who months and months and months ago pointed me in the direction of a fantastic book called On South Mountain.

It's by journalists, David Cruz and Alison Griffiths, and it is the main source of information for today's episode.

If you can get your hands on a copy, I would definitely suggest that you do. It's quite hard to find. I don't know if it's like out of print or what now, but I found one copy of it on Amazon UK from a secondhand seller.

It arrived and the day I started the research, I opened it up and the first half of the book, all of the pages fell out. So I had to sit and like read them like separate flashcards, which just made reading this hard, horrific book, even harder and more horrific.

But if you can find it, go buy a copy.

So yeah, it's bad today, guys, like really bad. Definitely an absolutely no eating episode, especially as we get into the second half.

I know some of you can ignore me and do that anyway, but you've been warned.

So really, this story is like deliverance meets wrong turn meets the hills have eyes.

It's the story of how and why in the 1980s and entire family, the Gola clan were found to have been living in squalor in the mountains of Nova Scotia, engaging in generations of incest, torture and child sexual abuse.

And I think the worst thing just to fully prepare you for what we're about to post into your earholes, it will be there forever. But I think the worst thing about it is nobody gave a single shit. That's the worst thing about it.

Yeah, exactly. There's the incest in all the rape and the child sexual abuse and then on the other side is the fact that no one gave a fuck like in the outside world. So yeah, prepare yourselves.

Right, here we go. We've got to get through it sometime.

On the 21st of January 1984, 14-year-old Sandra Gola was at school. She attended Wolf Wil High School in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Sandra had never really enjoyed school. When she did turn up, she was usually withdrawn and sullen. The other kids teased her relentlessly. She stood out like a sore thumb with her greasy hair and her dirty clothes.

But that day, there was something different about Sandra.

When her teacher told her to leave the classroom and only come back in when she was ready to pay attention, that definitely happened to me multiple times.

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