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Barry and District News
HAVING been groomed by her uncle – a respected and trusted Jehovah’s Witness church elder – from the age of 12, Karen Morgan hoped that by the time she was 16 and had mustered the courage to confront him that he would be dealt with.
Twelve years later she is only now seeing justice.
By the early 1990s Sewell, of Porthkerry Road, Barry had been grooming her for years. He had forced her to kiss him, plied her with alcohol, got into her bed, rubbed himself against her sexually, touched her inappropriatley and tried to get her to undress in front of him.
The abuse stopped when Sewell had – having been confronted by Karen’s parents and convinced them of his innocence – once again made advances on her and she had cried and demanded he stop.
“If I hadn’t stopped it then,” Karen said, “I think it would have gone on and on and gone further.”
Indeed Sewell did go further with another victim, and was this week convicted of not only the sexual abuse of young girls but also the rape of a woman and fellow churchgoer.
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