AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH JUNE 16, 2013
IT was supposed to be a fun birthday surprise, a male stripper for Kimberly Harrington’s 30th birthday.
But the risque yet innocent gesture organised by her friends brought all of Kimberly’s childhood horror flooding back.
Memories of when she was a little girl playing with her toys in the back garden and the next door neighbour would lift her over the fence and take her into the garage for what he said was their “special game”.
She was so young she can’t remember when the sexual assaults began, but she can recall exactly when they stopped – the day her parents moved house when she was just six years old.
Now a mother herself, Kimberly, 30, wants to tell her story because she wants judges who sentence child sex offenders to realise that just because abuse occurred when the victim was still a child, it doesn’t mean you ever forget.
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