How Could She?

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I just wish someone had noticed the oddities earlier and maybe stopped these disgusting meat sticks from damaging those sweet children's lives.

They believe that there should also be confidence-building exercises for teachers and support for any friends in whom abused children might confide. Dana’s silence echoed that of other young survivors interviewed for the schools booklet See Us - Hear Us! But she is still battling illness and the physical legacy of childhood brutality - and says a system that waits for children to speak up is condemned to fail most of them. Considering her history she appears to have become a strong woman who can hold her head up for her family.

Once she was covered in bruises from beatings with a poker: she took a note to school saying she had fallen off the school roof while playing on it. In fact, Childline has recorded a 132 per cent increase in children reporting abuse by women in the last five years.

That was surely not some kind of catastrophic coincidence, stars lining up in the worst possible formation to blight Dana and Heather Fowley's lives. DANA Fowley, who waived her right to anonymity, suffered at the hands of her grandad, mum and up to 15 men who abused her and her sister for more than 12 years. Born in a rough area in Scotland, her ordeal began when she was 5 years - and her fear carried on into her adulthood.She and Heather both have bowel problems which she believes are connected to the anal abuse they suffered as children.