By the time she was 12, Rachael*, now 44, had been sexually abused repeatedly by two men. But when she tried to tell her parents, they didn’t believe her. Here she tells her shocking story. I’m the youngest of four children and I was always ‘Daddy’s special girl’. There’s a six-year gap between me and my brother Robert, who is number three, so I really was the baby. My late father was a sergeant in the RAF. He was a drinker who didn’t contribute to the housekeeping, a very angry man who beat me for misdemeanors such as wandering outside my designated play area, and he  regularly hit my mum. But I loved him in spite of everything. When he wasn’t around, I used to  pine for him. He was the only one who ever bought me sweets. Dad could be very caring and loving, but he was unpredictable.  READ MORE HERE