UNITED KINGDOM
Mirror
Jan 13, 2015 By Becky, abuse survivor
Dear Home Secretary
I am one of the 70 survivors who met the panel for your inquiry into historic child sex abuse.
I was sceptical about whether they would be able to help victims like me, but after spending time with them, for the first time since I was abused more than 30 years ago, I started to feel real hope that our voices would be heard.
Now it seems certain that you will disband the panel, possibly as soon as this week – and the betrayal is devastating.
I was molested from the age of three or four by my biological father.
On my sixth birthday I became a “big girl” and was raped by him for the first time. By the end of that year I had been introduced to what I now am aware was a faith-related paedophile ring. On Christmas Eve, still at the age of six, I was subjected to the first of many multiple rapes.
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