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PAIN TO POWER I trapped a PREDATOR

Swimming in the family pool, my flesh crawled.

As my relative Charlie swam closer, I recoiled. Smiling at me, he looked like any other family man grinning at a child.

But beneath the well-practised, polished veneer lurked a twisted monster who was abusing me and stealing my innocence.

Brought up in remote Gin Gin, Qld, the eldest of four sisters, I had a wonderful mum and dad.

We loved riding dirt bikes and helping Dad muster on the farm.

But a sick secret hung over my

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