UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Elaine Thelen BBC News
‘Sarah’ is still traumatised by the sexual abuse she suffered as a young girl. In a church-going, happy and loving family was a seven-year-old girl.
But then, through a weekly ordeal of sexual abuse at the hands of someone she thought would protect her, her life changed forever.
Now 23 years old, the torment of the years of her uncle’s abuse remains strong, along with the anger over how her family covered it up to protect their reputation and that of the Church.
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