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RAPED hours after I gave birth

Holding my newborn son in my arms, it should have been one of the happiest days of my life. My beautiful baby boy was so perfect, just like his big sister, then three. But as I looked at my two children, fast asleep on the bed, all I felt was pain and fear. Because just hours after giving birth in May 2012, my body still aching after a long labour, I was raped by their father, my husband, the man who was supposed to protect me.

When I first met John Chesher in November 2006, I was just 17. I was working at a horse yard and, as soon as John saw me

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