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Historic sex abuse victim a ‘different man’ since attacker jailed

Source: PA Wire

A man who was sexually abused as a child and finally got justice 40 years later is encouraging other victims to speak out to get abusers “off the street”.

Stephen Lewsey, now 51, was just 10 years old when he began working at a repair shop in Crawley, West Sussex, and was sexually abused by his boss for several years in the 1980s.

The father-of-five kept the abuse a “dirty secret” until he confided in

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