After hearing about it here, I've just watched all 3 episodes of '3 Girls' about the Rochdale child abuse. I was beaten unconscious, starved and sexually tortured by my father for years as a child. As a teenager I ran away from home and went to the police. I made a long formal statement, I was 'analysed' by a psychiatrist, had intimate medical examinations in front of witnesses and yet because my father promised 'not to do it again' I was handed back to him........ I refused to go. Eventually I was made a ward of state & fostered.
It is now decades on and I'm in therapy, struggling desperately with ptsd and suicidal feelings. After signing the government's child abuse enquiry, the police have been in touch, all my original evidence has been destroyed but they're asking me to come in again & give evidence on camera for use in court. They told me that things are handled very differently these days. My father is 70 now. Do I go ahead with a prosecution and risk that it all falls apart a 2nd time?