Darian’s suspicions first began to surface when the police showed her photos that Dominique had taken of her while she was asleep. Recounting the moment she saw the two images discovered on her father’s computer, a moment she had previously testified about in court, Darian described a sense of dissociation. “I lived a dissociation effect. I had difficulties recognizing myself from the start,” she told the BBC. The photos, which reportedly show her unconscious in bed, clad only in underwear and a shirt, initially seemed foreign to her.
“Then the police officer said, ‘Look, you have the same brown mark on your cheek… it’s you.’ I looked at those two photos differently then,” she recalled. She also noted a disturbing similarity between these photos and those taken of her mother during the years of abuse at the hands of Dominique and other men. “I was laying on my left side like my mother, in all her pictures,” said Darian, who has penned a book, “I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again” (set to be released on Jan. 14), detailing her family’s trauma.
