Parents years of abuse 'catastrophically devastating' to daughter

By Melanie Kembrey
Updated October 28 2016 - 6:10pm, first published 5:45pm
Those who sat in on the 12-week trial have described it as the worst case of child abuse they have heard. Photo: John Donegan
Those who sat in on the 12-week trial have described it as the worst case of child abuse they have heard. Photo: John Donegan

A promising elite athlete who was raped and tortured by her father for more than a decade says she will be "forever damaged" and there is not a moment in her life when she does not suffer from the memories of the sickening abuse.