#coercion

#coercion

I was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was already drawn to reading about rights and freedoms. My suffering came from knowing that my rights were being violated, along with my adolescence and childhood. But soon I had to accept the situation

Emotional blackmail is manipulation; it is meant to obligate someone to give someone else what they want-or else. The "or else" there is often guilt. I should do it, think it, believe it, feel it, or say it, because if I don't, I'm going to feel terribly guilty. Why? Because I've been getting subtle or overt messages from a significant other to do what they want me to do-or else they will feel very bad, or very mad.

David Fogarty, a 28-year-old businessman from Tipperary, pleaded guilty to theft and fraud after selling expensive plant machinery he didn't own, accumulating roughly €100,000.

The prosecution's case will mostly focus on two accusers: Cassie Ventura and a woman identified as Jane, illustrating Combs' alleged pattern of coerced exploitation.

Mr. McMahon, who had been a New York Police Department detective, dug deeper. He turned to a law enforcement database and discovered that Mr. Xu was wanted by the Chinese government.