‘The silence is suffocating’: family abuse ‘epidemic’ uncovered in Samoa

The beautiful Polynesian island is home to a fiercely traditional society rife with domestic violence Blood on the walls. Bruises like smashed plums. As long as Sefina* can remember, family violence has been part of her life. She watched her mother routinely attacked by her stepfather. “Sorry,” her mother would whisper afterwards to the children.

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