A woman revealed how her father "made her his wife" at the age of 12 and raped her 4 times a week, while forcing her to wear an engagement ring and stopping her from school to do the housework.
She made nightmarish revelations about how her childhood was ruined, as she was raped "3 or 4 times a week" by her sadistic father, when she was just 12 years old.
According to the Daily Mail, Carol Higgins, 50, from Britain, revealed that Elliot Appleyard, the 72-year-old father, treated her as if he were his new wife, after the marriage with Jean's mother broke up.
Carol talked about the "secret" of her childhood and her abuse, but also about her repeated calls for help to the police. Finally, after 3 decades, her father was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
"I have fought for justice since I was a teenager, but my appeals have not been heeded. "I will not stop campaigning for every victim of abuse," he said.
"This man ruined my childhood in the worst way and did everything he could to ruin my life," said the now-adult woman, who has also written her autobiography, describing the suffering she suffered at the hands of her father. of.
Her father was convicted last January and Carol expressed her relief: "I carried the weight, the humiliation and the terror from my so-called father, but in the end the truth is out there."
The chronicle of horror
The outbreak of systematic abuse occurred when Carol was just 12 years old, when her father killed their dog and forced her to kiss him.
"The first time Dad kissed me, we were on one of the usual junk hunts," he explained. "He shot our dog without warning, claiming he had epilepsy. Then he sat down and nodded to me to sit on his feet, before pressing his lips against mine. I was confused and knew something was wrong, but I was too scared to pull over and assumed this was something all dads do. "From that day on, Dad kissed me whenever we went to find scrap metal."
Months later Carol found the courage to talk to her mother. As a result, social workers at the school visit her.
After a while her mother announced that they were leaving their home.
"I was relieved at first, but then things got tough. We lived in a dirty house and I was forced to sleep on the floor. When my dad asked me if I wanted to go home, I said yes. At first he treated me like a normal father ".
However, after a while the regime of abuse returned. When the girl was 14, she had a party while her father was missing.
"When he found out, he was very angry," he said. "I was so scared that I started cutting myself with a kitchen knife. Instead of taking me to the hospital, he told me to sleep in his bed. I did not dare to say no, but after a few hours I woke up and found my father leaning over me and caressing my belly. "He told me how beautiful I was before he went to the table next to the bed for a condom and then he raped me."
"I was numb with shock, but he acted as if he had done nothing wrong. When I asked what Grandpa would say, he replied, "Don't worry, sweetheart, she thinks the same as me, that dads should get into their daughters," Carol described.
Since then, Appleyard raped her several times a week and within a few months he put an engagement ring on her finger and told her to call him by his nickname, Sam.
"I was his daughter, but he treated me like I was his wife," the woman explained. "He kept me out of school to cook and clean and insisted on getting a red rose tattoo on my shoulder with our names on it."
"It forced me to read porn magazines and pose naked," he continued.
Shortly before she turned 16, Carol found the courage to speak to her mother. When she confronted Appleyard, he replied, "Prove it."
Jean went with her daughter to the police station, where she made a full report. But she was told there was a possibility that her name would be tarnished in court and she would be charged with defamation. But she was told that the case could be investigated in the future.
In January 2019, after 35 years of police adventures and relapses, Appleyard was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The judge characteristically said to her father: "He was a vulnerable child. You repeatedly abused her and used her for sex like your wife. "
Source: newsbeast.gr