Een treurig verhaal,van een auteur die toch vrij sterk in haar schoenen staat en gesteund wordt door een goede partner. She smiles when I ask if she ever worries she'll subconsciously self-destruct and ruin her relationship with Paul. I started to develop an act that I would perfect over the years: pretending that I came from a good, loving family,” Dana says. Now she has offered to go into schools to help young people lose the overwhelming shame, stigma and fear that so effectively silence them.

Dunsmore, who was of low intelligence and went to a special school, claims she was abused by her own father, William. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.per cent of professionals claimed they had gained knowledge, and more than half the 4,723 children involved said they now had a better understanding of sexual exploitation risks.

A group of up to 15 beasts preyed on Dana and another girl at houses in Edinburgh and a Perthshire caravan park. But she claims she was targeted again in 2015 and reported the rapes to cops four years later - but says she’s disappointed at the apparent lack of action. I’ve spoken to three different sets of police officers but one told me I ‘didn’t need to know’ what’s happening with the investigation. Many primary and secondary schools already invite organisations in to talk about child safety andor work with at-risk children. I don't usually tend to read the 'true' life stories but after reading an interview with Dana I was compelled to read her book.Dunsmore watched and joined in as Dana was blindfolded and raped by a string of men almost every day from age five to 17. She always wanted her own children but had a couple of miscarriages before Jordan, the first of her two sons, was born.

If someone like a kind teacher had asked me then, straight out, if this was happening, I might have said yes,” she says. Detectives who helped uncover the paedophile ring said at the time it was the worst case they’d ever seen. She also claimed the brutes posted mocking videos online of them walking at the beach where the rapes took place. Speaking for the first time about what she sees as an unresolved issue in the education system, she says: “I was very quiet at school. It just didn't come across that I should tell people because as a child, you don't know that it's as wrong as it is.She claimed she recently met Thomas at the St James Centre in Edinburgh where he told her she was "welcome" to attend a September ceremony in the Capital. You not only show that it is possible to survive the awful abuse you suffered and be able to have a normal happy life with your family.