Abuse victim: 'I can't bear to call him my father'

A young man who was systematically sexually abused and raped by his father for three years has told the Central Criminal Court that the man gave him a life sentence and he thinks his father should receive the same.

Abuse victim: 'I can't bear to call him my father'

A young man who was systematically sexually abused and raped by his father for three years has told the Central Criminal Court that the man gave him a life sentence and he thinks his father should receive the same.

The now 20-year-old victim said he feels he now has a stigma attached to him and said he never had a childhood. He described how he had lived in fear and lay awake in bed waiting for his father to come and abuse him.

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