Stephanie Hickey endured years of childhood sexual abuse and rape at the hands of her brother-in-law. She tells Rita de Brún about waving her anonymity in court to have her persecutor named, and why despite the toll it took on herself and her family, she has no regrets.

A woman who was sexually abused and raped by her brother-in-law has asked how the abuse continued when he was “supposedly fixed” after a priest directed him to get counselling.