But Dana is clear that the biggest effort to encourage children to speak out needs to be made in primary school, when the child has fewer barriers to telling.

Een treurig verhaal,van een auteur die toch vrij sterk in haar schoenen staat en gesteund wordt door een goede partner. But a recent study by the University of Bedfordshire revealed that only a third of Local Safeguarding Children Boards are implementing recent government aims to act against child sexual exploitation. Despite being at the school for four years and taking field trips with teachers, when there were opportunities to speak she simply couldn’t. She might have been forgiven if she had eventually shown support and love for her child and even asked for forgiveness - instead she sided every time with her daughters enemies! She also suffers from Gastroparesis - where the stomach doesn’t function as normal - and has to be fed through a tube.Like many other victims, Dana presumed that, had she told a guidance teacher, they would think her dirty and blame her. For years, Dana and her younger sister suffered at the hands of one of Britain's largest ever-known paedophile rings. The Scottish Government has announced plans to stop automatic release for prisoners jailed for serious offences after two-thirds of their sentence. She also claimed the brutes posted mocking videos online of them walking at the beach where the rapes took place.

I started to develop an act that I would perfect over the years: pretending that I came from a good, loving family,” Dana says. She always wanted her own children but had a couple of miscarriages before Jordan, the first of her two sons, was born. Heather was never abused at home, a fact Fowley can only put down to some strange kind of control Dunsmore and King were trying to exercise in case one of the children "told". Even as an adult, Fowley has struggled to balance the needs of the inner child who wanted a mum with the grown-up who needed justice.But little is being done on the ground to start actively raising awareness of this problem,” Bristow, a father of three, says.