37 Year Old Woman Raped Through by Uncle Finally Speaks Out After The Uncle is Finally Jailed for 16 Years

Tina Rogers was just 11 years old when her uncle began raping her on a
weekly basis at her grandparents' home, while her family laughed and
joked downstairs oblivious to what was happening.
Finally, more than two decades after the abuse started, 63-year-old
Colin Dunn was jailed for 16 years for sexually assaulting children
over a 50-year period.
Colin Dunn was found guilty of seven offences of rape and two charges
of indecent assault at Burnley Crown Court on February 12.
Dunn told an innocent Tina he was the only one in her family that
loved her before grooming her and forcing her to have sex with him
against her will.
Tina, now 37, was then forced to live with the horror of her abuse
after bravely trying to confide in her father, before being dragged to
apologise to her rapist when her family refused to believe the
allegations 'I went to tell my dad that Colin was touching me. I
wanted to tell him he was having sex with me, but I was scared how he
would react. I said he was touching my bottom.
'Dad went mad. He dragged me up to his house and made me apologise to
Colin's face. My uncle sneered down and me and said he wouldn't do
anything like that to me.
'None of my family would believe me. I could describe his bedroom, but
it didn't matter. No-one would listen.' Tina said.
But his actions soon turned sinister, as he encouraged Tina to spend
more time with him.
She said: 'The first time I remember anything happening was when I was
putting food into the fish tank. He sat on a chair behind me and put
his legs around me, and then he started touching me.
'I was naive, I didn't know what sex was. It didn't occur to me what
he was doing to me was wrong and I believed that he loved me.
'Colin said we would both get into trouble but especially me, so I
didn't say a word. I had sex with him too many times.'
But as Tina got older, she began to realise that her relationship with
Dunn was not what it should be.
She said: 'I was watching TV one night and there was a prostitute on
the screen. My mum said she was dirty. I then realised what was
happening to me was wrong as well.
When she was 21, Tina finally found the courage to report her rapist.
She said: 'I was terrified he was doing what he had done to me to other girls.'
Dunn was arrested and the charges were put to him. But while he was in
police custody, hecollapsed and was taken to hospital.
Police said there wasn't enough evidence against him and Tina was
forced to watch her attacker walk free.
More than a decade after Tina was forced to believe Dunn would never
be convicted of his crimes, he was handed a 32-month sentence after
confessing to attacking five and six-year-old girls he had befriended
close to his home.
He lured the youngsters with toys, Easter eggs and promises to look
after their animals.
Following the conviction in October 2011, Tina's statement was
reviewed and Dunn was finally charged with two counts of rape on her
as a child.