IPSWICH WOMAN FACES MAN WHO SEXUALLY ABUSED HER AS A CHILD
Last Wednesday, Shane Moore appeared in the dock at Ipswich Crown Court, where he was jailed for 12 years.Moore, now 40, had been found guilty of molesting the girl in the Ipswich area between May 2003 and September 2007, when she was aged between seven and 11.
Moore was 17 when the offending began and 22 when it ended.
Previously, the court heard that the victim would be dragged by her hair or carried to a bedroom where Moore would abuse her.
Joanne Eley, prosecuting, previously told that court that the girl’s father, “to his absolute horror”, had discovered naked pictures of the girl, and was shocked when his daughter told him that Moore had taken the photographs.
On Wednesday, the victim read a statement before the court.
“Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve heard about the worst things that have happened to me during my life,” she said.
“I am grateful for no longer being silences, and finally giving a voice to the child that I was.” She said she was thankful that others could no see Moore as she did – as “a monster”.
The woman said she continues to be affected, suffering nightmares, flashbacks and visions of the abuse which leave her scrubbing her skin in an effort to feel clean.
Addressing Moore, of Mill Lane, Cressing, Braintree, she said: “I was a child.
I was so small.
You were so big.
Your sentence will end one day.
Mine never will.
Within the four walls of your cell, I want you to think of me every day as the grown woman who stood up for the child I was.” Judge Nicola Talbot-Hadley sentenced Moore for five counts of sexual abuse committed against the same victim.
It was heard that Moore continues to protest his innocence.
Judge Talbot-Hadley sentenced Moore to 12 years in prison.
She also banned him indefinitely from ever contacting the victim or her family.
“You have given [the victim] a life sentence of pain,” Judge Talbot-Hadley told Moore.
“It is you rather than she who should feel ashamed now.”
