19-year-old drugged and raped every day by her own Dad who called her 'my wife'
An audacious 19-year-old girl, named Emma
Burt, exposed her own dad, who for two good years, repeatedly drugged and raped her, referring her as his "wife".
She revealed how her biological father Christopher Wayne Edwards,
40, indecently photographed her during the sickening tirade of abuse. He has now been jailed for 12 years for the catalogue of sex offences.
Emma first went to live with Edwards in December 2012, at the age of 15, after a row with her mum.
Edwards abused Emma within a month of her moving in before attacking her daily after feeding her cannabis until she passed out.
By the time she escaped, Emma was addicted to amphetamines and cocaine that her father supplied her with, and she claims he raped her every single day.
Brave
Emma has waived her right to anonymity to speak out after Edwards was
jailed for 12 years for rape and four charges of sexual activity with a
child family member.
He also admitted one charge of possessing an indecent photograph of a
child and three charges of taking indecent photographs, and supplying
her with drugs.
Mum-of-one Emma, from Powys, Wales, who is now free from drugs
, said: "He was in and out of my life for a number of years but I was
15 when I moved in with him and the abuse started around a month or so
in.
"In the first two months of his abusing me, he would never talk about how he raped me.
"He just would sort of wait until I was asleep or close to sleeping,
then the drugs came into it from about three months on wards.
"It
got to the point where I was dependent on the drugs. I didn't have any
understanding of what was going on because I was too spaced out.
"Being
so reliant on the drugs caused multiple issues when I left, I've never
told anyone but people started to notice that I was weird or different." "He used to jokingly call me his wife. I was practically a wife."
Emma's dad started by sending her countless text messages in the early stages of grooming her.
In
April this year, Mold Crown Court heard how Edwards would first give
his daughter cannabis, then introduced her to harder class A and B
drugs.
This would then maintain Emma's stupefied condition in which she was raped and had indecent photographs taken of her.
She said: "I had this way of coping with the drugs which was like another persona.
"The more drugs I took, the more I could ignore what was going on."
Her severe mental health issues led Emma to jump off a bridge in December 2014, to "put an end to all of the pain".
Emma added: "That's when I thought 'now I need to say something'."
She escaped aged 17 after she broke down at a family party and her relatives called the police.
Emma said: "That's what I am hoping by revealing everything he has done - for this to save another girl.
"I
could have a daughter, and I want to speak out for a child like her and
let her know that she doesn't need to go through the pain that I did."
Edwards
pleaded guilty to rape, four charges of sexual activity, one charge of
possessing an indecent photograph and three charges of taking indecent
photographs, and supplying her with drugs.
He was ordered to register as a sex offender for life and a sexual harm prevention order was made.
Judge Niclas Parry told the court: "She became utterly reliant upon your drugs.
"You used drugs to facilitate the offences and took the most appalling images of her."
*Hmmm! this is inhumane...*
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