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And they didn't discuss it with neighbours in case someone said, 'That house has the devil in it.'' 'In the morning they had headaches… Women woke with semen on them, and wondered why they were without underwear. 'Due to their religious beliefs, they thought something bad, something evil was happening in the colony,' Fredy Perez, the prosecutor who investigated the case, told the BBC of the widespread confusion in the community when the attacks were happening.

An eighth man received 12.5 years for supplying the sedative used. Just as in “Women Talking,” the Mennonite men secretly drugged the women, as well as girls as young as 3, before raping them, Vice reported. That year, seven male members of a Mennonite group were sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping more than 100 women. The True Story Of Bonnie And Clyde Is Stranger Than FictionĮlements of the book come from the shocking Bolivian crimes that made international headlines in 2011, according to the BBC. 'The options they're considering are to stay and fight, to leave and to do nothing.' 'There are eight women, two families, different generations, teenagers and then their mothers and their grandmothers, and all of the women have been attacked, have been raped, including the young children of the women there, and they have two days, 48 hours, to figure out what to do,' Toews, who was raised Mennonite herself, told National Public Radio during a 2019 interview about the book.

Tragically, the novel itself is loosely inspired by a true crime story in Bolivia. The book follows eight Mennonite women who meet secretly in order to discuss what the next steps will be after discovering that men in their colony were regularly drugging and raping them. The film from Sarah Polley is based on the 2018 novel “Women Talking” by Canadian novelist Miriam Toews, Time reports. The film “Women Talking' is a remarkable and disturbing tale about women in an isolated religious colony who are faced with a crisis of faith after multiple sexual assaults occur in their community.

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