‘I thought I could TRUST HIM’
Casey Allum, 23, Pinjarra, WA
As I made my way into the backyard, I was excited. My mum’s partner, Fred, had just told me he had a surprise for me.
‘There’s a cubby house I want to show you down the back,’ he’d smiled.
‘This is our secret,’ he said. ‘You can’t tell anyone’
I was just eight years old. Along with my older brothers Jake, then 14, and Michael, 13, I often stayed at Fred’s farm while our mum, Angie, then 40, worked late shifts at a supermarket.
Meanwhile our
