'The abuse finally stopped when I was 19.' 'He had a strange hold over me, so, scared of him, I always replied. But Anthony continued to text me every day asking what I was doing and where I was. Naomi says: 'I avoided going home as much as possible. When Naomi was 18, she joined the Army to try and escape his abuse. In time, Naomi realised that what Pitman was doing to her was wrong. Naomi pictured aged 17 when she was still being abused by Pitman and before she reported him to the police She remembers: 'I pleaded for him to stop, but he just said, 'Let me finish'. In 2013, when Naomi was 14, after everyone had gone to bed, Pitman pinned her to the living room sofa and raped her again. Naomi was desperate to tell her mother but was terrified of Pitman.
He then walked back downstairs as if nothing had happened.'įrom then on, Pitman raped Naomi most weekends when he came home. Naomi says: 'Afterwards, Anthony warned, 'Don't tell Mammy. But one afternoon, while her mother and older sister, then 14, were downstairs, Anthony took Naomi upstairs and raped her in his bedroom. Soon after, Pitman came home for a visit. 'It left me feeling really confused and I wondered if that's what dads were supposed to do.' Afterwards, I went to the bathroom and cried. 'I had no idea what was going on, but I was in so much pain down below, I knew something was wrong. Earlier this month, Pitman was sentenced to 21 years in prison after being found guilty of 21 counts of rape and other sexual offences
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