History Main / RapeAsBackstory

** Gilli (Sam's LoveInterest) and all of her sisters were raped by their father; her son is his.

%% * This happens to Maya in ''Literature/IKnowWhyTheCagedBirdSings'' in Saint Lousis, though it's an autobiography.



* ''Literature/TheRedTent'':
** It's mentioned that Laban groped Leah and Zilpah when they were young, but before things could escalate further (and before he could hurt Rachel and Bilhah), Leah told [[MamaBear her mother Adah]], who gave Laban ''quite'' a beating. He "made amends" by offering sacrifices, buying gold bangles for all the girls, and setting up a brand-new statue of The Goddess. For her part, Leah doesn't let it bother her or sully her views on men in general, but Zilpah DoesNotLikeMen at all, and this ''could'' be a major reason why. Also, the gold bangles that are among the trinkets used to [[spoiler: buy Ruti back from slave-traders Laban has gambled her away to]] are implied to be Zilpah's from the aftermath of that incident, that she buried rather than chose to wear.
** Later, Laban's second wife Ruti (who is roughly the same age as his daughters) drinks an abortifacient herbal concoction, so that Laban won't have any more sons she feels he doesn't deserve the honor of or any daughters that he'd molest. When Ruti asks Rachel to help her abort, she threatens to kill the child anyway after it's born. The other women of the camp all support Ruti's choice, on the grounds that ''they'' don't care much for Laban or [[DomesticAbuse the way he treats her]], either.
* Both the protagonists of the ''Literature/DogAndSpiderPrivateInvestigations'' series have this. Nick was a child prostitute, and his lover [[spoiler:wife, later on]] Jessica was held by a supernatural creature for two years. Long enough for her to develop UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome which comes back to haunt her when the rapist decides in the second book that Jessica is to become his queen. Though the titular Dog and Spider have become inseparable lovers, ThePowerOfLove does not heal these wounds. It does, however, prompt her to seek therapy.
* ''Literature/TheAscendantKingdomsSaga'': In ''Ice Forged'', because the guards at the Velant PenalColony are usually people who were a hair away from being prisoners there themselves, it's common for female inmates to get raped repeatedly by the guards. What sets Kestel Falke apart is that the first two guards to force themselves on her both turned up dead later, due to her prowess as an assassin. There wasn't a third attempt. Notably this ''isn't'' used as a reason for Kestel's personality: in the time we know her she simply takes it in stride as something that happened to her a long time ago.
* In ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'', [[spoiler:Alex's gym teacher in high school rapes and otherwise sexually abuses him and his classmates. This prompts Alex's StartOfDarkness]].
* ''Literature/BeautifulLosers'': Edith was gang-raped as a 13-year-old, as described in a flashback. How this affected her is never really explored, but it may have had something to do with her hypersexuality and eventual suicide.
* In ''Literature/NightmareAlley'', during a conversation with Stan, Lilith rather off-handedly reveals to him that she was gang-raped when she was 16 years old. This could perhaps provide some kind of [[FreudianExcuse explanation]] for her [[RapeLeadsToInsanity cold and sociopathic behavior]], but at the same time could also be [[UnreliableNarrator a fabrication]] and yet another way by which she is manipulating his emotions to control him.
* ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'': Many of the female slaves were raped by their owners or captors in the past. Sometimes it's explicitly stated, but often just heavily implied.
* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': The Female Mercenary character's fear of sex is explained due to her being sexually abused in childhood sometimes.
* Sister Georgia from ''Literature/LanguageArts'' was raped by soldiers during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. She [[ChildByRape had a baby boy]], whom she gave up for adoption.
* Implied for Lalasa in ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall''. Kel is convinced to hire her as a maid when she realizes that Lalasa has been routinely harassed and even terrorized by the male servants in the palace, and being in the employ of a single noble would offer her protection that her uncle can't. Later, Kel asks outright why Lalasa is so cynical about men, and Lalasa says that a man "hurt" her and her parents took his side. (In fact, she says it was her ''brother'' before [[VerbalBackspace quickly amending it]] to "a man".)
* [[spoiler:Skye and Starr's mom]] from ''Literature/OrangeCloudsBlueSky'' was raped in high school by a popular boy, who got away with it thanks to his rich father. She got pregnant and had an abortion, resulting in lesions on her uterus that left her ability to have kids in question for some time. Her trauma resulted in bouts of depression, which she hid for years until she couldn't anymore.
* Played straight in ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodMothers'' with mothers Beth and Meryl. Beth, who has a history of self-harm and suicide attempts, was raped at twelve by her choir teacher. Meryl was raped at six and later became a mom in her teens. Both of them tell the others that their mothers didn't believe them when they told.
* ''Literature/TheLoveAndLiesOfRukhsanaAli'': Rukhsana learns to her horror of how both her grandmother and her mother had been raped repeatedly by her grandfather.
* ''Literature/TheChangeRoom'':
** Shar it turns out was raped by a man who'd invited her to a party on his boat near Marseilles. It took her by surprise completely, with her having difficulty trusting men again for a long time after that, and this is the most affecting part of her past we learn about at first.
** Martin was also groomed by his female teacher in his pre teens, after which she had begun raping him under the cover of a "romance". He convinced himself it was romance, and claimed that his mother was just imagining things after she discovered this, so his rapist got away with this. Only later did he realize what she really did to him.
* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Ophelia Salvadori's history of being sexually abused as a child is very important to volume 3's story: she was turned into a de facto BreedingSlave for her mother's [[SuperBreedingProgram eugenics experiments]] by putting her in proximity to desired sperm donors and [[SmellsSexy letting her succubus Perfume do the rest]]. She was thus forced to [[TeenPregnancy bear multiple pregnancies to term before she even turned 15]]. Despite escaping this life and finding a group of friends at [[WizardingSchool Kimberly Magic Academy]], SlutShaming over her past and her family's reputation led to her hitting the DespairEventHorizon and embracing the image of the succubus.
* Rhian of ''Literature/CreatureCourt'' left her house alone during a raucous sexual festival and vanished for several hours. When her housemates found her, she was obviously traumatised, hacking off her hair and burning it and cutting at her arms. She developed severe agoraphobia and a [[HatesBeingTouched dislike of touch]], and refused to allow men in the house. [[spoiler:As it turns out, it's [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] - several men ''[[AttemptedRape tried]]'' to rape Rhian, only for her latent powers to manifest and burn her attackers alive. Her trauma is due to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horror at what she did]] rather than rape.]]

* Deconstructed in ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths''. The two main characters have the usual tragic TraumaCongaLine background: Their mother was insane, they were orphaned as young children and the city's underworld swallowed them up. Felix became a child prostitute serving sadistic men and was intentionally hooked up on a mind-dulling drug for the purpose of reducing his resistance (and his pimp was severely abusive, too, up to and including killing some of Felix' fellow child prostitutes). Mildmay's fate as a member of a gang of child thieves looks better at first glance, but rather than being a mother figure, the adult female gang leader took him into her bed at least from puberty on. While neither dwells all that much on the rape aspects of their childhoods, both are seriously messed up psychologically as a result. This background has warped their personalities in ways that make them often unlikable to the audience,[[note]] Especially Felix, who is downright vicious whenever he's not outright insane, and who starts the plot feeling sort of driven to go abuse a teenage prostitute himself in a moment of stress and only stops himself at the very last minute. Mildmay is more likable, but suffers from extremely low self-esteem and often behaves like a total doormat, just taking Felix' frequent verbal abuse.[[/note]] and their issues are never really "fixed" throughout the 4 books, as they alternately try to change and fail or just completely give up on becoming more healthy in their personal relationships.
* Seregil, one of the main characters in ''Literature/{{Nightrunner}}'', is a somewhat unusual example because neither does the character seem to be traumatized by what happened to him, nor does the narrative clearly condemn what would be considered child molestation in a modern setting. Over the course of the first 3 books, we are given the information that Seregil was "seduced" by a considerably older guy, but who was also "not man-grown" yet. Seregil considers this his first love and doesn't seem to have bad feelings about the sexual aspects of this "relationship", only that it turned out the guy was just trying to manipulate him into betraying his clan, which eventually led to Seregil killing a man in self-defense. Seregil hates the seducer and plans to kill him on sight if he ever meets him again, but that's for the betrayal and for his clan's honor - he's still physically attracted to him (or at least his memory of him) and he says "it didn't take much" to seduce him. But the thing is: Seregil was his species' equivalent of 12-14 years old[[note]]He was 22 in objective years. At one point, a character grown up in a human rural setting judges a 22-year-old girl of Seregil's species to be about 14 in human terms. And given that in a medieval setting, a rural 14-year-old girl would most likely not even have started menstruating or developing many secondary sexual characteristics yet (the average onset of puberty, at least for girls, for most of human history was about 16, due to stunting from malnutrition and childhood diseases), that estimate of "22 equals 14 in human years" probably should be read as "22 equals 12 in ''modern'' human years" -- though it's not certain the author was aware of the much higher age of menarche in a pre-industrial society.[[/note]] at the time; Seregil himself calls himself a "still a child" back then regarding the unfairness of holding him criminally liable for the manslaughter; and book 4 clarifies that the guy who seduced him was "several decades older" than him[[note]]So at least 52, which is almost Seregil's current age in the books, and he looks like he's in his early 20s, even though his birth culture still wouldn't consider him old enough to marry at 58.[[/note]] and therefore not just an older "teenager"; and then the seducer himself mentions that Seregil's family could have had him executed for the "seduction" alone, never mind the instigation to theft and violence. (Plus, at least at this later point in their story, the seducer is perfectly willing to molest Seregil while he's drugged and sleeping, and he sadistically beats him later on, which reads like the character is and likely always was a sociopath.) It's hard to say if the author really just didn't think the age difference was a problem and/or that Seregil was old enough to have a sexual relationship, if only it had been without ulterior motives -- or if she meant for the reader to think that Seregil is still in deep denial about having been molested as a child. (Which would not be all that unrealistic in terms of characterization for a child abuse victim who was carefully groomed and not physically hurt.) On the one hand, for all his romanticizing of the memories, he does treat his own young lover (17 when they get together) very carefully and tries to keep him at arm's length for a long time precisely because he thinks as an older mentor he has way too much influence over the boy to ever start a romantic relationship with him in good conscience. But on the other hand, he also still has romantic dreams/memories about his seducer that are presented to the reader without comment, and he is still conflictedly attracted to the guy and overlooks the sexual assault he inflicts on him as an adult like it didn't happen. And the very few other characters who know about this backstory don't comment critically on the age difference, given that this is a setting where it's not unusual for humans to marry at only 15, and where a 16-year-old boy is perfectly acceptable as a customer in brothels.
* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', this is part of the reason why [[spoiler:Trini]] is reluctant to remarry after the death of her first husband, the rapist. Differs from other examples in that she lives in a society where male on female rape does not usually happen -- her sisters don't refer to it as rape, but use the normal euphemism for sex while talking about it, and emphasize the physical violence (the rapist also beat her up) far more.

* In ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'', Garranon and his brother were raped when their country was invaded, which may be part of why Garranon is very protective of his younger brother even though they're both adults. Garranon also wants revenge, but is sensible enough not to take it [[spoiler:immediately]].
** It's also heavily implied that Oreg was raped by various Hurog lords during his slavery (a period lasting [[WhoWantsToLiveForever over a thousand years]]). Ward notes his [[PrettyBoy beauty]], [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld apparent youth]] and the RestrainingBolt forcing him to obey orders would make him a very easy target.
* In ''Literature/TheRing'', Sadako is raped by Nagao Jotaro, who finds out to his disgust that she has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitive Androgen insensitivity syndrome]], an intersex condition that causes the woman affected to be born with a vagina, but with XY chromosomes, no uterus, and internal testes where the ovaries would typically be. Ashamed and humiliated, she retaliates with a massive telepathic attack, but he overcomes her long enough to strangle her and toss her down the infamous well. Sadako's vengeance against the world therefore stems partially from that incident.

* ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'':
** Sookie's Cousin Hadley is mentioned offhandedly at first. She ran away from home as a teenager, got into a life of drugs and prostitution, before finally getting mixed up in vampire politics and murdered for it. As Sookie begins investigating her long-lost cousin's life and death, she realizes that Hadley was also raped by the same great uncle. Unfortunately, Hadley's parents didn't believe her, leading her to run away from home.
** The backstory of Sophie-Anne Leclerc, the Vampire Queen of New Orleans, is that after a plague killed his entire town except for her and her older brother, the brother (who hated her for some reason) raped her and then sold her to strangers for food and money. The brother is then killed by a vampire, but the vampire still keeps her into forced prostitution until she's turned in a failed attempt to save the vampire's life from vampire hunters. In the show, her forced prostitution is mentioned but not the brother's rape.
* The ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series uses this on several occasions. Tarma from ''Vows and Honor'' is a classic example: beaten, raped, and left for dead by her clan's murderers. Her [[HeterosexualLifePartners partner]] Kethry also suffered this fate, having been sold into "marriage" as a child and only managing to escape due to the kindness of a servant. Each deals with it in different ways: Tarma by becoming a Swordsworn of her Goddess (and thereby asexual); and Kethry by being forced to confront her rapist and defeat him. There are some Heralds from later novels that also have rape (often child rape) in their backstories -- Talia became Chosen after fleeing from a child marriage that would have been tantamount to rape.
* [[spoiler:Carnival]] from the ''Literature/DeepgateCodex'' series. It was [[TraumaCongaLine particularly brutal]], and even after ''three millennia'', she's still not over it.
* Lots of characters in the ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' series have rape somewhere in their backstory but we only meet Fergus because Jamie managed to interrupt Jack Randall raping the boy.

* ''Literature/TheWindThroughTheKeyhole'' reveals that [[spoiler:Randall Flagg/Walter o'Dim (a BigBad in [[Franchise/TheDarkTower the series]] as well as Creator/StephenKing's other novels]]) had been raped when he was thirteen years old.
* Segnbora from ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheFive'' was raped as a child.
* ''Literature/WickedLovely'':
** Leslie's brother drugged her and handed her over to his friends to be raped as a way to pay for his drug addiction.
** Niall is also revealed to have been raped and abused by the dark court after declining Irial's offer of kingship. Made particularly painful when you see the full extent of his scars and realize that they came from the same event. And the fact that Irial, whom Niall was in a relationship with, not only allowed them to but ordered it...many of the fans consider the rape to be a MoralEventHorizon crossing. Oh, and Niall either had to give them himself or the mortals he had enchanted...Give the guy a break already!
--->'''Irial:''' You entertain the court or they can, gancanagh. Fear and pain is the coin for their ransom; it matters little to me who pays it.
%% * This happens to Maya in ''Literature/IKnowWhyTheCagedBirdSings'' in Saint Lousis, though it's an autobiography.
* Rosalie from ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' heavily implies in ''Literature/Eclipse2007'' that she was turned into a vampire after being gang-raped and left for dead by her fiance and his friends ''the night before her wedding''. Don't worry, though; [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge she definitely got them all back]].
* In ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', Christian Grey was 15 when one of his mother's friends and a fully adult woman took him as her sexual submissive in an S&M relationship that lasted several years. He denies that this was rape, and the heroine is jealous instead of disgusted when she meets his rapist, but in any case, it was statutory rape. Considering his inability to differentiate between consensual sex and rape in the relationship with Ana, it is highly unlikely that this sexual abuse didn't affect him negatively.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', it's never explicitly said what happened to Dumbledore's sister Ariana as a kid after some {{Muggle|s}} boys found her doing magic, but it's pretty heavily implied to have been rape. Their dad went to Azkaban for attacking them because of it, and the trauma of it all caused her to go mad and kill their mom by accident.
* In ''Literature/IsekaidShoggoth'', Alyssa Gillespie's pre-transmigration character suffers a very traumatic near-rape experience and ''she'' was the one who got arrested, lectured for hours by the police for "excessive force" for daring to fight back. It turns up in a big way because when a con-man tries to muscle into taking over her pastry store, first with empty flattery, and then with an extremely lop-sided contract, she refuses only for him to call in a notorious orc SerialRapist and goes full-tilt NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization, stating that all "prissy upper-class ladies actually secretly with to be bedded by a studly orc." She's triggered, shreds the orc savage to pieces and then whips out her own LeonineContract, get paid a bunch of money and leave the country into voluntary exile, or learn to sleep with one eye open, always on the run. He takes the first option and tries to welch on it with another of her enemies... oh, ''that was a mistake''.
* A recurring theme in ''Literature/JamesBond'', creepily enough:
** In ''Literature/DiamondsAreForever'', Tiffany Case was the daughter of a madame who stopped paying protection money to the mob, the mob chased out the hookers and gang-raped Tiffany at a young age.
** In ''Literature/DrNo'', Honey Rider was raped by the man who oversaw the property where she is currently living. She retaliated by putting a venomous spider in his bed.
** In ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'', Pussy Galore reveals she was raped by her uncle when she was 12, causing her RapeAndSwitch lesbianism.
* In ''Literature/CodexAlera'', Odiana was enslaved and gang-raped, at the same time as her [[TheEmpath empathic powers]] [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead activated]]. She is as a result quite mad.

* ''Literature/InDeath'': Eve and Dr. Mira have been raped as children. Dr. Mira seems to have dealt with it, while Eve basically spends the entire series trying to deal with it.
* In ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'', this is a part of [[spoiler:Sha-ra]]'s [[DarkAndTroubledPast backstory]]. He was raised to be the next [[spoiler:bearer of the titular prophecy book, but as his teacher and brother died in a fire. He was taken in by the [[CivilizedAnimal Winter Bears]]]] and tried to live his own life. He became one of the first to become a DragonRider, but his destiny caught up with him; it was up to him to find the [[TheChosenMany chosen children]] who hadn't appeared in 100s of years which was what made his teacher mad and burn his castle down. [[spoiler:Sha-ra]] then became an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]]. One day, he saw a beautiful woman who invited him to a drink. He doesn't remember much but followed her into an inn, and later woke up, felt dirty and disgusting and wanted to do anything to forget it. 9 months later, the woman appeared before him again [[ChildByRape with a baby]], he [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild said some things he shouldn't have]], and the woman offered to kill the child. He begged her to not kill the child, and she [[EveryScarHasAStory scarred the child]] and placed a curse on him that the next time he met the child, he would die.
* A rare male example in ''Literature/Touch2017'''s main character, James, and an even rarer example in that he is actively trying to move past it rather than just angsting. The trauma of the event forms the starting point of the story.

** A complicated male example. The dwarf Tyrion Lannister met a woman named Tysha, with whom he fell in love and tried to hide from his family because she was not a noble. Then, his father reveals that she was a prostitute who Tyrion's brother had hired secretly for him. To "prove" how she was a hooker, he hires her to have sex with the entire family garrison and then forces Tyrion to go last. This experience naturally scars Tyrion his entire life, until he later learns the truth from a confession by his brother Jamie: Tysha was never a prostitute; she was exactly who she said she was. Tyrion's father, embarassed that his son had married a commoner, lied, and the scene with the garrison was in fact a gang rape.

** This is also implied in the case of [[spoiler:Aeron Greyjoy, a.k.a. Damphair. He has a recurring nightmare of his brother, Euron, sneaking into his bedroom at night (namely the sound of the hinges on his door) and doing something unmentionable to him. All but confirmed by Euron himself in a preview chapter for ''The Winds of Winter'']].

* ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'': The first book, ''Weekend Warriors'', reveals that three bikers raped Kathryn Lucas in front of her disabled husband, and they knew that her husband was disabled and helpless to stop them. Naturally, she was left badly scarred by this. The book has her and her new friends track down the three bikers responsible and give them the John Wayne Bobbit treatment in order for her to obtain closure in this matter. After that book, her attitude remains as combative, confrontational, explosive and fiery as ever, which suggests that her behaviour may simply be part of who she is and not just the result of her being raped... or perhaps that the scars were too deep to be healed by one act of vengeance.
* Used to effect in ''Literature/AndTheAssSawTheAngel'' when toward the end, the narrator reveals that he got raped one time. He's already so completely insane that its lack of effect on him feels wholly in-character.
* Subverted in-character in ''Russka'', where a young woman from the Ukraine confesses to her fiance that she's no longer a virgin, having been raped by a Tatar when she was younger. (Truth is, [[spoiler:she's been in [[ParentalIncest an incestuous relationship with her widowed father for years]], brought about due to mutual grief and social isolation, plus her father's alcoholism]].) The alleged rape is only alluded to once after that when her now-husband kills a Tatar raider, and by that point, she's forgotten telling him the story.
* In ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'', it is heavily implied [[spoiler:that the genesis of Dave's cynicism, as well as the reason he was put in the 'Emotionally Disturbed' school program where he met Amy, was because he took [[RapeAndRevenge bloody revenge against a bully who had raped him]]]].

* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': Honor has AttemptedRape in her backstory. Lord Pavel Young tried to ambush her in the showers at the academy, without accounting for the fact that Honor was a {{Heavyworlder}} in Earthlike gravity. Unfortunately, she reacted to the near-rape in stereotypical female fashion, giving Young time to report his injuries as sustained "falling down the stairs". The academy instructors didn't believe it, but Honor refused to press charges.
* DS Diane Fry in Stephen Booth's ''Cooper/Fry'' detective series. Fry was gang-raped shortly before the first novel in the series. Eventually, she discovers that [[spoiler:one of the rapists was her foster brother, and her foster parents helped cover up the crime]].
* Angel, the heroine of ''Literature/RedeemingLove'', was raped at the age of eight and then [[SexSlave forced into prostitution]] by her rapist. Aside from a brief bout with UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome, the subject of this experience emerged a deeply cynical and lonely BrokenBird, and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin premise of the novel]] is that ThePowerOfLove ([[TheFourLoves unconditional ''agape'' love, not only romantic love]]) can heal her deep psychological and emotional wounds.
* Creator/ZilphaKeatleySnyder came as close as she could in 1970 to giving Ivy Carson this backstory in ''Literature/TheChangeling1970''. This was written just prior to the time publishers began to allow children's or young-adult fiction that dealt openly and frankly with sexual abuse.
* If it doesn't happen in the novel proper, it is often revealed that the heroine (or one of her friends or relatives) of the average Creator/DanielleSteel novel had this happen to her.
* Zarate Arkham, the main protagonist in Daniel Gonzalez's horror novel ''Un grito en las tinieblas'' (A Scream in the Dark), was raped by her father as a child. Gonzalez also uses this resource with his character Laura Talbot on the ''Ravencraft'' series, when at the beginning of the first novel she is raped by a werewolf -and turn into one as well.
* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': Cara and maybe all the Mord-Siths; Darken Rahl raped them often in the past. Along with them being taken from their families and horribly trained to become Mord-Sith, it's all most get as backstory. It mostly serves to make them sympathetic, along with Richard by comparison, since he would never do such a thing.
* ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'': Sleepy, the narrator of ''Water Sleeps'', was raped repeatedly by at least one of her uncles as a child and young teen. Her justification for joining the Black Company and then sticking with it when their fortunes fell after the events of ''She Is the Darkness'' is that the Company is her family now, and it's either stay with them or go back to the blood relatives who abused her.
* Sam in ''Literature/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'' via a friend of her father's. The climax of the story reveals that [[spoiler: Charlie himself was molested as a child by his deceased Aunt Helen]].
* The ''Literature/{{Cormoran Strike|Novels}}'' novel ''Literature/CareerOfEvil'' reveals this to have been the case for [[spoiler:Robin -- though it was foreshadowed as early as ''Literature/TheSilkworm'']].
* ''Literature/TheRedTent'':
** It's mentioned that Laban groped Leah and Zilpah when they were young, but before things could escalate further (and before he could hurt Rachel and Bilhah), Leah told [[MamaBear her mother Adah]], who gave Laban ''quite'' a beating. He "made amends" by offering sacrifices, buying gold bangles for all the girls, and setting up a brand-new statue of The Goddess. For her part, Leah doesn't let it bother her or sully her views on men in general, but Zilpah DoesNotLikeMen at all, and this ''could'' be a major reason why. Also, the gold bangles that are among the trinkets used to [[spoiler: buy Ruti back from slave-traders Laban has gambled her away to]] are implied to be Zilpah's from the aftermath of that incident, that she buried rather than chose to wear.
** Later, Laban's second wife Ruti (who is roughly the same age as his daughters) drinks an abortifacient herbal concoction, so that Laban won't have any more sons she feels he doesn't deserve the honor of or any daughters that he'd molest. When Ruti asks Rachel to help her abort, she threatens to kill the child anyway after it's born. The other women of the camp all support Ruti's choice, on the grounds that ''they'' don't care much for Laban or [[DomesticAbuse the way he treats her]], either.
* Both the protagonists of the ''Literature/DogAndSpiderPrivateInvestigations'' series have this. Nick was a child prostitute, and his lover [[spoiler:wife, later on]] Jessica was held by a supernatural creature for two years. Long enough for her to develop UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome which comes back to haunt her when the rapist decides in the second book that Jessica is to become his queen. Though the titular Dog and Spider have become inseparable lovers, ThePowerOfLove does not heal these wounds. It does, however, prompt her to seek therapy.
* In ''Literature/BooksOfTheRaksura'', the main character, Moon, a Raksura, never saw another member of his species and didn't even know how they were called or if he was the only one left. Moon was desperately trying to find any signs, anything about his race, until he found a city attacked by the Fell, a race of vicious flying predators who eat intelligent beings. There, a Fell ruler (always male gender) called Liheas tried to brainwash him into thinking he was Fell too and then raped him, after which Moon realized he was not one of them and broke the ruler's neck while the ruler was sleeping, then set the room on fire and escaped. Because of this traumatic event, he stopped all attempts to ever try to find his race, didn't care anymore about himself for a long time, and became cynical, wary and distrustful of others, especially of the Fell and even more of the Raksura.
* ''Literature/TheAscendantKingdomsSaga'': In ''Ice Forged'', because the guards at the Velant PenalColony are usually people who were a hair away from being prisoners there themselves, it's common for female inmates to get raped repeatedly by the guards. What sets Kestel Falke apart is that the first two guards to force themselves on her both turned up dead later, due to her prowess as an assassin. There wasn't a third attempt. Notably this ''isn't'' used as a reason for Kestel's personality: in the time we know her she simply takes it in stride as something that happened to her a long time ago.
* In ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'', [[spoiler:Alex's gym teacher in high school rapes and otherwise sexually abuses him and his classmates. This prompts Alex's StartOfDarkness]].
* ''Literature/BeautifulLosers'': Edith was gang-raped as a 13-year-old, as described in a flashback. How this affected her is never really explored, but it may have had something to do with her hypersexuality and eventual suicide.
* In ''Literature/NightmareAlley'', during a conversation with Stan, Lilith rather off-handedly reveals to him that she was gang-raped when she was 16 years old. This could perhaps provide some kind of [[FreudianExcuse explanation]] for her [[RapeLeadsToInsanity cold and sociopathic behavior]], but at the same time could also be [[UnreliableNarrator a fabrication]] and yet another way by which she is manipulating his emotions to control him.

* ''Literature/TalesOfThePack'': Corwin and several other women in the Pack were raped before joining, it turns out.

* Sawa from ''Anime/{{Kite}}'' as a young teen was the victim of statutory rape by her guardian Akai as part of his plan to brainwash her into being his personal assassin. Given her treatment at the beginning of the OVA, as well as his inclination against ever taking "no" for an answer, one can assume that he raped her more than that throughout her life.

* Creator/ZilphaKeatleySnyder came as close as she could in 1970 to giving Ivy Carson this backstory in ''Literature/TheChangeling''. This was written just prior to the time publishers began to allow children's or young-adult fiction that dealt openly and frankly with sexual abuse.

** This is also implied in the case of [[spoiler:Aeron Greyjoy, a.k.a. Damphair. He has a recurring nightmare of his brother, Euron, sneaking into his bedroom at night (namely the sound of the hinges on his door) and doing something unmentionable to him]].

** Cheryl was regularly sexually abused by her grandfather as a child -- when she tells the team that he would use the Tunt family mansion's tunnels at night to "check on the children," [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she immediately becomes quiet and distant.]] Everyone immediately understands what she means and are all [[EveryoneHasStandards visibly appalled.]]

** ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Bleez of the Red Lanterns was ganged raped by Sinestro Corps members in a creepy kind of way, at least it goes with the current theme that all Red Lanterns are victims.