Mother of rape victims: ‘A living nightmare that I can’t wake up from’

Mother of young victim details family anguish as man gets life sentences for rape of girls, aged 6 and 9

The mother of a 9-year-old girl raped after being lured away from a party said since the attack she is living a nightmare that she can’t wake up from.

In her victim impact statement, the mother said her attacker made a cold predatory decision to rape her daughter. “He made her believe in her little heart that she would die if she didn’t comply. He gratified himself on the body of an innocent child.”