"I always told them they had a big brother in heaven, but they didn't know about the abuse."īut despite finally finding happiness, Maureen was haunted by nightmares of the abuse. There was no way I was going to let them down. When she was 17, Maureen had a son, Ben, now 32. I drank too much and I went off the rails a bit." I was grieving for Christopher and I felt very angry and confused. She had suffered eight years of horrific abuse. The abuse continued until, at 16, Maureen left home. I just wanted to die."Īfter Christopher's death, Maureen's mother and brother stopped abusing her.īut her stepfather began assaulting her again only a couple of weeks afterwards. I felt like the heavens were crying with me. She says: "When he died, I felt like my life had ended, my world had finished. I adored him with all of my heart and for the first time in my life, I felt what love was."īut just under a month later, he suffered a cot death. "That maternal instinct kicked in immediately. It didn't matter why he came about, or where he came from. She says: "Christopher had blond hair, blue eyes. He was born on her brother's 19th birthday. In October 1984, Maureen gave birth to a son, Christopher. "I was ordered to tell people that I was raped by a stranger but I knew, for certain, that my baby's father was my brother." For the first time in my life I could remember, I wasn't being abused and it was like a little piece of heaven. "Yet of course she knew that either her own husband or her son was the father. Maureen says: "My mother was mortified all she worried about was what the neighbours would think of her, with a 13-year-old pregnant daughter.
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