South of Forgiveness

Could you forgive a rapist? A 17-year story of reconciliation

Warning: this story contains a description of sexual assault.

But that's what Icelandic author and journalist Thordis Elva has done with her former high school boyfriend who raped her when she was 16 after a school Christmas party.

Her boyfriend was an 18-year-old Australian exchange student, Tom Stranger, who said he felt entitled to have sex with Thordis despite her being so drunk that people at the party had suggested they call an ambulance.