Reddit reviews I Choose to Live

Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez were child molester and killer Marc Dutroux's only surviving victims.

The only reason Sabine was found alive is that, age 12, she was a spirited child and had, after having been held alone in captivity for months, she demanded Dutroux bring her a friend. Dutroux then went on to abduct 14-year-old Leatitia, but there were witnesses to that abduction and their statements eventually led police to arrest Dutroux and him bragging that to police that he could lead them to not one, but two girls... and so they found Laetitia and Sabine.

Sabine later wrote a book (she had been held captive for months) and I remember reading how authorities and even her own family had presumed her to be dead; their relationship never quite recovered after what she'd been through.

Neither of the girls ever opened up in public about Dutroux's abuses, but it's clear he was a monster: he had previously abducted and held two teenage girls who he drugged until they were unconscious and then buried alive, and two 8-year-old girls he had abducted starved to death in captivity while he was serving time in prison for other crimes.

Edit: spelling, formatting

One of Dutroux's surviving victims, Sabine Dardenne, wrote an incredibly moving and impressive book about the whole ordeal. Her time in his basement cell, the guilt she felt for asking for "a friend" - which led to the abduction of Laetitia Delhez, which was seen by a nun and another witness, who ID'd Dutroux's van and it led to his final arrest - and much, much more. It's available on Amazon HERE, but I hate the translated title. "I Choose To Live" isn't half as strong as the original French title, which can be translated as "I was 12 and Biking to School".

http://www.amazon.com/I-Choose-Live-Sabine-Dardenne/dp/1844082687