How Could She?

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Her mom too had been involved in such ruthless acts towards her daughter showing no remorse when pleaded to save her. Years later, in 2007, her mother Caroline Dunsmore was jailed for 12 years for her role in the paedophile ring, a judge roundly condemning her for standing by and allowing her daughters’ torture. detailed her horrific upbringing and gang rapes orchestrated by evil mum Dunsmore, 58, who was jailed for 12 years in 2007 and released in 2015. I’ve spoken to three different sets of police officers but one told me I ‘didn’t need to know’ what’s happening with the investigation.

But somehow, it wasn't the wider significance that shocked most; it was the microcosm of Fowley's family. Childline statistics suggest that when a child is abused by a woman, the perpetrator is most likely their mother.She was going on about girlfriends she had in jail and I thought, you are talking to … the nature of your crime … and you are talking about a girlfriend you have.

She and Heather both have bowel problems which she believes are connected to the anal abuse they suffered as children. Dana Fowley has shown incredible strength and courage after everything she endured, she is awe-inspiring. It takes courage for former victims such as Dana to speak about what happened to them in a bid to safeguard others.Despite her appalling childhood, Dana Fowley has grown into a strong woman whose courage and determination to make a better life for her own family shine through on every page of her deeply disturbing, but ultimately triumphant, true story.

But she claims she was targeted again in 2015 and reported the rapes to cops four years later - but says she’s disappointed at the apparent lack of action. I'll confess that in the early pages of this book I was sceptical and wondered if some of it was the product of an over-active imagination. Dana Fowley we thank you for being strong, even at times when it was the last thing you wanted to do! There are factual statements about what happened to the girls and of Dana's feelings as she grew up with the unending abuse, all given as calmly as possible given the dreadful circumstances. But the changes, which are currently being put through parliament, will only affect prisoners sentenced after the new legislation comes into force.

She and her younger sister endured years of terrible abuse, subjected day after day to unimaginable attacks, and not only did their own mother do nothing to protect them, she willingly helped. It's one of most poignant things about children: their absolute trust that their mother will protect them. We would like to reassure anyone who has been a victim, or knows of someone who has been a victim of abuse that if they wish to report, we will listen. Her mother, Caroline Dunsmore, was given a 12-year prison term in 2007, but under automatic release laws she will leave HMP Corton Vale in June after serving eight years of her sentence.

I have long been a fan of true life tales of survival against the odds and the most despicable crimes, and I was the same with this book. She is a woman who has no reason to trust anyone, no early experience that should allow her to recognise love – and yet she does. But worse, every rape, every act of torture, was done with the full collusion or participation of the woman most charged with her safety and welfare: her mother.I found I was in tears reading this and Dana is a very brave person, Paul is so supportive thank goodness. Dana, who waived her right to anonymity, was shocked to learn her mum planned to wed her long-term partner, Thomas Miller. I’ve got to fight now because I don’t think my last breath is going to be too long away but they won’t get away with what they’ve done to me.