3. TIL that The Specials singer Terry Hall was abducted by a paedophile ring in Fra...

TIL that The Specials singer Terry Hall was abducted by a paedophile ring in France when he was 12 years old

From an interview with Mojo Magazine

"That was the whole thing about being abused as a kid. That abuse was horrendous, man, it was like, taken away and abducted and locked in fucking wardrobes, and being horribly abused. But I want to share it with people. That’s the only good thing that can come out of it, if you can talk to people and someone thinks, “Fuckin’ ’ell, it’s not just me, maybe I can deal with it.” That’s what you should do, right? Because you might do some good. You might do some good."

Abducted, raped, locked inside a wardrobe for days and then beaten and dumped by the side of. road like a sack of rubbish. How a 12 year old coped with that god knows. Fucking animals.

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