Victims urge others to speak out

“I CAN never get into a relationship again. I can’t trust men. I have two little girls, I can’t trust men whatsoever around them. I’m always overprotective and paranoid. I don’t have confidence around men.”

Those were the words of Elizabeth Madigan outside of court yesterday after her abuser was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Jeremiah O’Callaghan subjected his daughter Sharon and the Madigan sisters Elizabeth and Jacinta to a reign of abuse spanning 12 years, up to 2002.