Married to a Paedophile

Innovative audio/visual documentary/drama using real-life audio interviews recorded over the course of a year with families after a family member has been charged with possessing indecent images of children. Unsurprisingly, the interviewees (who include wives, children, and the offenders themselves) are reluctant to appear on camera for fear of reprisals so their words are lip-synched to by a cast of actors. Due to advances in detection, the police are charging more people than ever before for possessing images of child sexual abuse, and many of these turn out to be family men with their own children. Some of the women married to these paedophiles are completely unaware of what their partner has been secretly doing and the first they know about their husbands' vile crimes is when the police turn up at their front door. This documentary follows two families as they navigate the fraught relationships, deal with the stigma and shame of the offence, and make difficult decisions about their future.