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Alice Munro's Daughter Says Stepdad Abused Her, And Mom Knew

Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, died at 92 in May (Credit: AFP)

Canadian writer Alice Munro's daughter said Sunday that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child and that her mother was told but stayed with him, in a damning account published after the Nobel laureate's death.

Andrea Robin Skinner wrote in the Toronto Star that she was nine when, in 1976, "one night, while she (Munro) was away, her husband, my stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, climbed into the bed where I was sleeping and sexually assaulted me."

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