'My father was also quite affectionate towards me whereas he would beat my brother to a pulp.
My younger brother was jealous because of my dad's special treatment of me. 'My father always favoured me because I brought in the money – I was supporting our whole family. Her father, precariously self-employed after losing his teaching job, was violent towards her younger brother, but since she had become the family breadwinner, Raven was granted a peculiar status.
In her teens, the crimes were often perpetrated in Los Angeles, where many film studios provided ample opportunity for the underground child abuse industry in the 70s and 80s. It was to be the beginning of a 15-year ordeal, which saw Raven regularly trafficked by her parents and other members of an organised crime ring from her home in a middle-class suburb in the American north-west to locations all over the US and abroad.
