From Jimmy Savile to Larry Nassar, time and again parents have missed the signs that their child is being sexually assaulted. But a new Netflix documentary shows that grooming often starts closer to home
‘I tell you, I don’t know how we could have been so gullible when there were so many red flags. But I didn’t see the red flags,” says Robert Broberg in the jaw-dropping new Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight. But, in truth, there weren’t red flags: there was one giant red blanket entirely enveloping the whole story, from beginning to end.
The tale of the Broberg family, and how they were duped by their close family friend, Bob Berchtold, who molested their young daughter Jan for years, starting in her family home, is so incredible that the documentary has already been dubbed by DigitalSpy “the maddest, darkest true-crime show yet”. I watched it last weekend and, while I think of myself as something of a wizened old hack when it comes to true-crime documentaries, when it finished I immediately tweeted my shock and was inundated with replies, all in the same “WTF?” vein.
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