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In 1927, Buddicom gave birth to a daughter (Michal) as a result of an unsuccessful affair, and gave the baby away for a childless aunt to adopt. When Blair, who never knew of
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In reviewing her postscript, Kathryn Hughes interpreted
Venables’ account as revealing an “attempted rape”. Venables never used the phrase "attempted rape", which originated from Kathryn Hughes herself. Venables’ postscript reveals that she asked Buddicom’s sister if Blair had raped Buddicom, and
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she gave an emphatic “No”. Hughes must have noted that Blair had “attempted to take things further”, which she chose to characterise as “attempted rape”. Both Hughes and
Venables considered the incident to have been a “botched seduction”
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