Rebecca and her attractive non-identical twin sister, Hepzibah, have both been systematically abused by their parents Hepzibah seems better equipped to fight back and escape while Rebecca resorts to playing invisible.
In that time, Radio 4 listeners have been party to a truth that few who live in the quiet village of Ambridge had uncovered - that Helen has been systematically abused by her husband Rob.
Ms Marsh said Keanu had been "systematically abused" by his mother who had evaded detection.
But because of our society's obsession with rooting out addiction, we look the other way as people in pain are systematically abused by health care professionals.
Harvey Proctor said the Metropolitan police's Operation Midland inquiry team, set up to examine claims that boys were systematically abused by an establishment paedophile ring, should be wound up and its head be put in charge of parking offences.
Operation Midland, which is examining claims that boys were systematically abused by a paedophile ring made up of men from politics, the military and security services at locations across southern England, including the Dolphin Square estate in south-west London, will continue as a distinct homicide team consisting of 27 officers.
In 2012, Heywood was shocked by a grooming scandal in which white girls as young as 13 were systematically abused by a group of older men.
Since Barack Obama's election in 2008, the painless filibuster has come to be systematically abused by Republican senators seeking to frustrate the president's agenda.
Perhaps the best thing about Justice While Black, by Robbin Shipp and Nick Chiles, is the way that it puts individual faces on the persons, disproportionately African-American males, who are systematically abused by the criminal justice system.
And then we discovered that that trust had been systematically abused and flouted by all of the institutions involved – not just the commercial banks, but also the central banks, regulators and governments that were supposed to ensure that public trust in the system was warranted.
"The Thai junta has sunk to a new low by charging an activist's mother under the 'insulting the monarchy' law, which has been systematically abused to silence critics," said Brad Adams, the Asia director of Human Rights Watch.
