Scales of injustice

In the final part of a three-part series, Conor Ryanlooks at the case of a 13-year-old girl who a court ruled consented to sex with her 41-year-old abuser.

Scales of injustice

AT JUST 13-years-old, Angela Gibbons felt exposed, frightened and let down. She was the target of a predatory paedophile, a charismatic man old enough to be her father.

From being her first employer he later became her first kiss, her first sexual experience and the father of her first child.

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