Lesbian Mom Rapes Daughter

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9:00 AM - He drugged her so he could rape her daughters and was starting to groom his own biological daughter when the police were called, but the nightmare is not yet over for Rachel Knight*.
He drugged her so he could rape her daughters and was starting to groom his own biological daughter when the police were called, but the nightmare is not yet over for Rachel Knight*.
Even with ex-husband in prison, locked up as a convicted paedophile, child rapist and poisoner, Barry John Roberts* continues to persecute her via the justice system.
“He drugged me, drugged my daughter and raped her for years, now he’s trying to rob me,” she said.
“I’ve got six kids to bring up and four of them are his, but he doesn’t care about them.
“He’s a psychopath and a narcissist and he not only groomed my daughters, I realise now he had started on a third, his own biological daughter.”
Incarcerated in Parklea correctional centre in western Sydney, a relative of Roberts is suing Rachel for $100,000 in an unrelated matter.
It is only at the end of the criminal trial for Roberts’s child sex crimes, that the concurrent civil case can be revealed.
Rachel is a highly intelligent and successful businesswoman.
She is witty and wise, and yet was completely fooled by her abusive, controlling husband until his self-promoted image as a devoted father cracked.
“In the few months leading up to his arrest, his behaviour had been quite strange but never in a million years could I have imagine this,” Rachel told news.com.au .
“There were a 100 pieces of a puzzle floating around in my head, and suddenly they came together in my head.”
On Tuesday, a jury found Roberts guilty of 22 charges of drugging his stepdaughter Elly between the ages of 12 and 16 years and four charges of drugging Rachel.
The six man, six woman jury found him guilty of sexual intercourse with Elly when she was aged between 10 and 14 and when she was under his care.
They found him guilty of indecently assaulting her, and on two counts of indecently assaulting her younger sister Sophie, aged 11.
The District Court had convicted Roberts of 99 indecent and sexual assault charges against Elly when he pleaded guilty because he could not defend them.
Roberts had videoed himself raping Elly and violating her with objects. After his arrest, Rachel found 13 SD cards hidden in one of his jackets and police discovered the videos.
At his trial, Roberts argued that he hadn’t drugged Rachel or Elly, who could be seen comatose during the assaults.
He claimed Elly, who he began abusing just after her 12th birthday, had entered into a consensual sexual relationship.
He also claimed he was a devoted father to Sophie and that Rachel had concocted two assaults against her.
Roberts barely flinched in the dock on Tuesday as the female foreperson’s voice rang out in the courtroom, charge after charge, “Guilty … guilty … guilty … guilty …”.
Rachel, Elly, Sophie and their large band of family and friends hugged each other outside the court and went off to celebrate.
But just hours later Rachel came down with the flu.
Three-and-a-half years battling to get the case into court and her daughters through the ordeal of giving evidence was over.
“I never get sick, I don’t catch anything,” Rachel told news.com.au from her home two days after the verdicts.
“But I started to feel it the day of the verdict.
“The whole thing has had a massive impact and some days I’m really shaken up about it.
“But it doesn’t have to ruin your life.
“I have very vivid nightmares, flashbacks. I have a lot of trouble switching off.
“I find it hard looking at photos of [Elly] as a little girl thinking she was being horrifically abused.
“But we are very proud of her, how she’s coped, although she is scarred from it.”
Since the jury verdicts, Rachel has also been subject to some Facebook comments by people who cannot believe she was unaware of her then husband’s abuse.
But Rachel’s story is a classic case of how paedophiles can work within a family, assaulting the children and “gaslighting” or duping the mothers.
She has decided to tell it to make other women aware of how a cunning man can get away with abusing children.
“He didn’t only groom my daughters, he groomed me and my family,” Rachel said.
How Roberts got away with his crimes using Travacalm and a meat tenderiser was so banal, it seems evil.
Rachel met Barry when she was 17 years old, but did not enter a relationship with him until she was 25.
With another partner, she had given birth to Elly, and was pregnant with Sophie when that man ended the relationship.
Barry was present at Sophie’s birth, a fact he repeated at his trial to claim that he could never assault a child he felt was virtually his own.
The truth would prove more sinister.
During their 13 years together, nine as a married couple, they had four children together.
“I honestly believe he married me so he could have access to my children,” she said.
“After I’d had one daughter with him, I was pregnant again and I thought here I go again making the same mistake as with the father of my first two girls.
“I said if we don’t get married, I’m not giving your second daughter your surname.
“I believe now that he was worried that I could see through him, that I would destroy all the work he had done and that I was going to bail.
“We got married and I thought how romantic and beautiful.”
In about 2006, after Elly had turned eight years old, Roberts began grooming her for sex.
Rachel noticed Elly would always got to Roberts and sit on his lap, and thought it was lovely that her eldest child had an affectionate relationship with her stepfather.
She now knows that it was coercion rather than choice.
The sex began soon after Elly turned 12.
Roberts claimed in court that the child had touched him first and encouraged him to assault her.
Elly’s evidence was the opposite: her stepfather had begun touching her, and escalated to violating her with objects and then to full sexual intercourse.
In the beginning he drugged Elly with Travacalm, videoed her and told her he could do anything to her while she was “asleep”.
He told Elly if she revealed what was happening to her mother, the girl could tear apart their family.
Two years into the abuse, following the birth of the couple’s fourth biological child together, Roberts began drugging Rachel.
He laced her Diet Coke or wine with Travacalm tablets he crushed with a meat tenderiser.
As the court heard during his three-week trial, this was to make his wife comatose so he could go downstairs and rape his stepdaughter.
He had tried to groom Rachel’s second daughter Sophie, molesting her twice while reading to her in bed.
But the 11-year-old had objected, and Roberts told her not to tell her mother because she would upset the family unit.
“I think he left his run too late with her.
“He groomed [Elly] much earlier, rubbing her back, tickling her back, her on his lap reading to her.
“He never did anything inappropriate in front of me. Ever.
“But when you’re the mum and you’re supervising, you’re also being groomed to accept that certain behaviour is acceptable.
“That he’s taken on your kids as his own and is being a great dad.
“[Elly] would always be hanging off him and I just thought that was because she loved him.
“I’ve now found out if she didn’t hang off him, she would get into trouble off him.”
Rachel now looks at photographs of Roberts with her third daughter, and sees the girl positioned on his lap as he had done with Elly at the same age.
“And it’s the way she behaves towards men, we’ve had to tell her you can do that with you Nan or your aunty but not with men.
“I strongly believe he was grooming her. I think he was getting desperate because [Elly] was starting to fight back and get rid of him.”
In the last year before Rachel’s family was torn apart by the discovery of Roberts’s child crimes, his behaviour had altered.
Rachel realises now he was controlling all of them and in particular Elly.
Roberts forbade the teenager contact with boys her age.
By day he was continually ticking her off. By night he was raping her.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by the resignation of ministers who said he was not fit to govern and with a growing number of lawmakers calling for him to go.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has declared he wants China to play a permanent role training police in his country and flagged a substantial new donation of police vehicles and equipment from Beijing.

Authorities in Israel say they have shot down three Hezbollah drones heading towards one of its gas rigs in a disputed area of the Mediterranean.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by the resignation of ministers who said he was not fit to govern and with a growing number of lawmakers calling for him to go.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has declared he wants China to play a permanent role training police in his country and flagged a substantial new donation of police vehicles and equipment from Beijing.

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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — As a kid who grew up skiing on Howelsen Hill and swimming in the Yampa River, I love this place. The mystical beauty of the valley coupled with the wonderful people makes a town that is arguably one of the best places in the world to grow up. However, my beloved hometown has been forever tainted in my memories by one event that happened during the summer of my freshman year of high school and the fallout that followed.
I was 14 years old and giddy about finishing my freshman year. He was 15 years old and also a member of the upcoming sophomore class. Our families had been friends for years. I had known him since we were 10, and he was and still is a very prominent member of the sports community.
I was excited to hang out with him. We were both sober, and it was the middle of the day. I thought that nothing could go wrong. He told me I was pretty, he told me everyone did it, he told me it would be quick, he physically pushed me, he forced and coerced me to perform sexual acts on him. Then he left. Within 20 minutes, he changed the course of my life.
I spent the majority of the next year in my bedroom. I had once been a girl who had perfect grades, competed regularly in sports and was very involved in the community. I honestly and truly did not think that the 20 minutes with him my freshman summer had anything to do with the missed classes and lack of interest I was suddenly experiencing.
I didn’t think it was sexual assault. I thought it was my fault. I was so ashamed.
Finally, almost exactly a year later, I told my mom what had happened. My mom was the first one to tell me what I had known deep down but had feared for the past year — what had happened to me was wrong, and it was sexual assault.
The content of this series can be upsetting or triggering in relation to a trauma you directly or indirectly have experienced. Advocates of Routt County offers 24/7 support. Reach out confidentially to an advocate by calling the crisis line at 970-879-8888.
After a whirlwind of tears, counselor conversations and questions, I decided to report. To this day, sitting in the sterile police interrogation room with a male detective and elaborating on each microscopic detail of that day is one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do.
After reporting, I waited to hear my attacker’s response. To my surprise, he admitted everything. I expected that a confession would result in action, however, the District Attorney said my report was untimely and, therefore, could not be taken on as a case.
Feeling betrayed and shocked, I had to keep moving forward. For me, forward meant my junior year in high school with him.
Ever since my assault, high school became hard. Academically, I still kept almost perfect grades, but socially, I lost my friends and isolated myself. He was one of the popular kids in school, and he seemed to have it all while I struggled to learn when he walked into my classes. I struggled to have fun when he was three seats away at a football game. I struggled to enjoy prom when he was dancing close enough to touch me.
At almost every high school event, he was there. Seeing him almost daily forced me to constantly relive my trauma. Even when I walked across the stage to receive my diploma, he was just a row behind me.
To my knowledge, the Steamboat Springs High School administration, or at least the school resource officer, knew about my assault, but I was never once talked to or checked on.
The high school has wonderful aspects: great teachers, many of whom I became close to at my years there, a grand campus and a gorgeous backdrop. However, in my opinion, there exists a culture that protects athletes and ignores anyone who may stand in their way. As a girl, and I can’t speak for all girls at the school, I often felt sexualized by the male students.
For me, my graduation day felt like an iron door of a prison in which I had been shackled to my abuser finally opening. Today, I am happy to report that I will be attending a great college in the fall. I have been able to compete at an international level in my chosen sport and rebuild my ties to family, friends and community.
In no way have I moved on or forgotten. I still have dark days. I still struggle. But, I have tried my best to use my story to empower others and create change.
As I said, I will forever cherish my childhood here, but I want to challenge us, as a town, to do better.
Parents, I challenge you to talk to your kids about sexual assault and make it clear that sexual assault is not OK.
Students, I challenge you to support and talk to one another.
Survivors at the high school and in town, I challenge you to stand up and speak your truth. Do not let anyone else dim your light.
And Steamboat community, I challenge you to believe survivors. I challenge us to expect more education for students, support for survivors and assistance from the school leadership surrounding sexual assault at the Steamboat Springs High School. I also challenge us to come together and support one another and talk about hard issues.
We all live in this beautiful town, and it is easy to get lost in the wildflowers and Champagne powder. However, we need to remember bad things still happen here, and it is OK to talk about them.
My daughter graduated from Steamboat Springs High School in June, and it was a gloriously happy day. Beautiful words were spoken about the graduates, the incredible teachers and our special town. As I watched my daughter walk so graciously across the field and take her seat, I felt a very familiar heartache, and I know she felt it, too.
You see, my daughter was sexually assaulted by another high
school student at the end of her freshman year, and he walked that same field
and took his seat at graduation, as well. As I watched him sitting in his seat,
his back to me, I wondered if his assault on my daughter even crossed his mind
that day. I doubt it, and here’s why — he had no consequence to his actions. In
fact, he truly got away with it.
On a rainy evening in the Safeway parking lot, my daughter
told me about the assault. As you can imagine, I was shaken to my core. It was
the hardest thing I’ve ever listened to in my life. The one question she kept
asking me over and over again through her tears was, “Mom, do you think I’m
disgusting?”
At her request, we reported the sexual assault to the
police, my daughter so, so bravely telling her story in excruciating detail.
The officer was kind and sensitive to her, but he said he doubted anything
would come of it. And he was right.
I was told by the police that the boys’ parents were
notified, and that they brought him in to meet with the same officer. According
to the officer, the boy didn’t deny anything and made no excuses. In fact, he
agreed with my daughter’s version of what happened — completely.
I was also told that the high school resource officer was
informed of the case, and we were assured that this boy would not be allowed to
retaliate against my daughter in any way, but again, no consequence.
I called several times to find out the status of the case, and over a month later, I was told that the DA decided the case was not strong enough to move forward, in part because it had been over a year since the assault. I found that sadly ironic because, in my mind, my daughter was so very brave for finding the strength to tell
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