I'm a 'Survivor' of Stepdad's Abuse ; Greg O'keeffe Talks to a City Woman Who Lived Her Childhood in Fear of the Next Rape A

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THE sound of creaking floorboards and turning door handles will probably haunt Sharon McGovern until the day she dies.

They were the noises which, from the age of 10, signalled she was about to be raped by her stepfather in the middle of the night.

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I'm a 'Survivor' of Stepdad's Abuse ; Greg O'keeffe Talks to a City Woman Who Lived Her Childhood in Fear of the Next Rape A

The general sexual abuse had begun six years earlier when she was just four years old.

Now, four years after her brave testimony put paedophile Michael Garvey in jail, Sharon, 48, has decided to tell her own story in a book called Afraid.

A mother-of-three, ...

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