Rape survivor Madeleine Black is taking back her life through forgiveness

Madeline Black was gang raped when she was 13 but, in time, decided she would not be defined by what happened, writes Colette Sheridan.

IMAGINE forgiving the perpetrators of a violent gang rape. That’s what Madeleine Black, rape survivor and bestselling author of Unbroken: One Woman’s Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence, eventually decided to do.

This mother of three young women, who works as psychotherapist in Glasgow, wished her rapists would kill her to blot out the pain and degradation they inflicted on her at the age of 13.