1. Woman reports parents to police after discovering they are brother and sister.
Three years on from learning of her parent’s incestuous relationship via Facebook, 32-year-old Donna Price says if forced to go back in time, she would still make the same difficult decision and report her mother and father to police again.
“I feel my childhood was all based on a lie. I hate them,” Price said when speaking to The Sun.
She continued, “There’s not enough words to describe how much I hate them.”
Having grown up in what she believed to be a normal family in the UK, it wasn’t until December 2014 – when Price was already a parent herself – that she learned her parents were actually brother and sister and the life that she had previously known came crashing down.
Receiving a Facebook message from an estranged relative about their relationship, Price says she initially believed the story was just a cruel joke, with “somebody just trying to stir up stuff.”
But after reaching out to another relative, she received the news that changed her life forever. Price says, “her [Facebook] reply was yes, they are brother and sister.”
“I felt sick and my stomach just dropped.”
It was then that Price made the difficult decision to report her parents to police, a move that kick-started a two-year-long investigation and saw both her mother and father plead guilty to charges of incest in court last month.
As part of the case, Price and her siblings were forced to undergo DNA tests, and it was at this time that Pirce learned she had a different, still unknown, father than her siblings.