Catherine Wrightstone and her two sisters experienced severe trauma during their childhoods, having been repeatedly abused by their brother Richard Brennan. The abuse began at a very young age and became a normalized part of their lives. Wrightstone expressed that surviving such violence feels like a death of a part of oneself, highlighting the deep emotional scars left by the experience. Their testimonies shed light on the long-lasting impacts of sexual abuse on individuals and families.
When you survive rape, it's like surviving annihilation. It feels like a part of you dies in those moments.
As young children, being awoken in the middle of the night to be abused by their brother Richard Brennan became part and parcel of three sisters' early life growing up in south Dublin.
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