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Who Will Believe You?: My story of survival, and finding the courage to fight back

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The policewoman heading the investigation, DC Jo Huddleston, supported Kim through the court process. She reveals the impact on Kim on the first day of hearings at Leeds Crown Court when her sister turned up with her Dad. It had taken every ounce of strength for Kim to go to court but she broke down at what she saw as a great betrayal. According to DC Huddleston sexual abuse often divides families: “it’s something we encounter a lot but it rarely gets talked about. On the face of it, Kim Chown, now 56, from Darlington, County Durham, was the daughter of a respectable scientist and university lecturer who worked around the developing world, moving from Nigeria, Sudan and Brunei to Papua New Guinea and the Atlantic island of St Helena. Then I would have to get up, put my uniform on and go to school whilst he lay in bed sleeping it all off." Horrific DIY abortion Kim’s husband reported the abuse to police in 2015 because he feared that if he didn’t his wife’s drinking would kill her. DC Huddleston recorded Kim’s video evidence and believed her account, but was surprised by how the case progressed. During his first police interview Bernard Beaumont denied everything, but just a week later he returned to claim that it was Kim who had seduced him when she was sixteen. Add the --reference option to the chown command to copy the settings from one file to another: chown --reference=ReferenceFILE FILE

To assign a new owner of a file and change its group at the same time, run the chown command in this format: chown NewUser:NewGroup FILE The years of abuse went unnoticed by teachers at her private school in Nairobi, but her closest school friend, Anthony, or Keg as he was known, supported her. Speaking now he reveals that he knew about the abuse but felt frightened to reveal it: a decision he regrets today: “I knew it was wrong what Mr. Beaumont was doing. I saw bruises and injuries which she was never able to explain properly and she would tell me stories about how he would force himself on her." He went through these strange rituals where he would make me get drunk and forced me to listen to the same Pink Floyd record over and over again whilst he raped and abused me,' Kim recalled. He stayed on in Nigeria before returning the UK, then left for Kenya in 1973. He landed a job at a polytechnic in Nairobi to teach histology and histopathology. Kim said: 'I couldn't believe it when I was pregnant again less than a year later. This time he wanted to keep the baby and play happy families.

On the face of it, Kim was the daughter of a respectable scientist and university lecturer who worked around the developing world, moving from Nigeria, Sudan and Brunei to Papua New Guinea and the Atlantic island of St Helena. I was utterly within my father's control and after six years couldn't remember a time when I wasn't being raped,' she said, adding that it didn't occur to her to tell her sister at that time what was going on. Bernard Beaumont forced her to drink home brewed beer and wine laced with pure alcohol which he took from the laboratories where he worked, and dressed her up in adult lingerie before raping and abusing her for hours on end.

He then used a tall white candle, 'switching between objects, trying to ram each one harder inside' while she screamed with pain. He then forced her to perform a sex act on him. The following night he raped her for the first time. But far worse was to come when Kim was eleven: her dad took her and her brother to Kenya for a summer break whilst he lectured at the Polytechnic in Nairobi. They didn’t return and so began the years of abuse which turned her childhood upside down. To the outside world Bernard Beaumont was a figure of respectability but at home he terrorized his daughter in a case described by the Crown Prosecution Office as one of the worst they’ve handled. That's the message I really want to get across," says Kim. "This is 30-40 years ago, and I got justice after that length of time, which is amazing. This is to give a voice to all those who find themselves without sufficient voice, or the strength to be heard, and about letting people know that this abuse does happen, and it shouldn't be glossed over."The Untold follows Kim and her husband, Jonathan, as they scramble to find out more about the appeal process and what’s expected of them as it draws near. Her father, Bernard Beaumont, was a respected lecturer and well known in Leeds. In court he claimed that although he had sex with his daughter it was only once she reached 16 and was at her instigation. The jury didn’t believe him and he was found guilty of five counts of rape in the 1970s and 1980s. Histology is the study of body tissues and their structure/function, while histopathology is the microscopic examination of tissue and mainly diseased issue.

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