Raped by her father from age six and pregnant at eleven and again at thirteen, he kidnapped her and went on … I’ve tried to block it out so I don’t remember it all.”Shannon was a pupil at Breadsall Hill Top School at the time.She said she used to go to school “with bruises all over” but was instructed to tell teachers she had been play fighting with her cousins.After a period of time, Shannon and her dad moved back to Chaddesden.Shannon said: “That’s when everything started getting worse. He regularly asked her to clean the house and make his dinner from the age of nine.When Shannon was 11, she noticed her body starting to change and realised she was pregnant.She said: “For a while I didn’t tell him. Image caption Shannon Clifton, now 19, wants her father to be prosecuted for more offences . "Shannon said summer was the worst time because her dad would rape her outside the house.She said: “He used to take me out and do it in fields and woods.“At night, if he had been drinking at a family thing, on the way home he would do it in an alleyway.“I tried to fight back but I used to get hurt more. You can unsubscribe at any time.Shannon Clifton's dad Shane Ray Clifton has been jailed for his horrific abuse of his daughterShane would rape his daughter up to four times a dayShannon has written a book about the abuse she sufferedShannon pictured when she spoke for the first time about her experience Most people look at me and wouldn’t know I had been through that.’Whole school closes after children show coronavirus symptomsHow schools have 'moved mountains' to get children back into classSecond school bus crashes into bridge and rips off roof hours after morning collisionSeveral children injured after roof is ripped off bus in crash with bridgeBar worker ‘messaged model after getting number from Test and Trace’Whole school closes after children show coronavirus symptomsCoronavirus hits Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire pudding factory with worker ‘seriously ill’Racist pensioner is beaten up on London bus after calling passengers ‘monkeys’Pub bans under-25s after young people are blamed for rise in cases
Shannon Clifton, now 19, wants to help others who have been sexually abused (Picture: BPM) Social care workers and the police turned up at her school but Clifton … Shannon Clifton has waived her right to anonymity in this highly acclaimed, dark but deeply inspiring book. Shannon Clifton, 19, from Derby, is horrified his sentence has now been cut by five years despite her horrific ordealA teenager has spoken about the sickening sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her dad from the age of just six-years-old.Shannon Clifton was raped by the man who was supposed to protect her and has had his baby but now she wants to help others see "the light at the end of the tunnel". I just got used to it in the end.‘The first time it happened was when we moved into a flat near Elvaston Castle.‘It started becoming sexual. But when I did finally tell him, he beat me up.“It was all really confusing, I was a child carrying a child.”She worked out that she was around 28 weeks pregnant when she lost the baby.She said she wasn’t surprised she lost the baby “because of the things I was going through”.Shannon said when she was 12 she told a teacher at school and a social worker that her dad had broken her nose.She said: “They took me away for one night and then the next day I went straight back to him.“They didn’t do anything about it, so I thought there’s no point in telling people anything.“I put myself in more danger by telling them. I was too scared.
I know I’m worth more than that.“Sometimes you have to make positives out of a bad situation.”When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. But I couldn’t. I’ve tried to block it out so I don’t remember it all.’Ms Clifton added when they moved back to Chaddesden the abuse became worse.She said she was often raped before and after school and sometimes in the middle of the night.When she became pregnant at 12 her dad would also rape her in fields, woods and alleyways.She added: ‘I remember the first time we were taught sex education, my teacher told us ‘nobody should touch you in these places’.‘I was shocked because I thought, that’s what my dad does to me.’Shannon said her dad also treated her as his wife and regularly asked her to clean the house and make his dinner from the age of nine.Ms Clifton was finally helped by teachers at West Park School, in Spondon, who called authorities after they noticed she was heavily pregnant in 2013.She had previously contemplated stabbing herself with a knife after being raped by her dad during her pregnancy.But she decided to carry on living for her unborn child.Social care workers and the police turned up at her school but Clifton was not arrested and went off on the run with Shannon for a week before he was caught when he was spotted with her at a fitness centre in Derby.Ms Clifton’s dad had told her when the baby was born, he would kill him.In April 2015, Clifton was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the abuse.He later had his sentence reduced to 10 years, meaning he’ll be potentially be allowed out on parole in four-and-a-half years.Ms Clifton, who gave evidence against her dad in court, is now terrified of him finding her when he is released.Ms Clifton is studying forensic psychology with the Open University and planning to release her book, The Monster I Loved, before the end of the year.She’s also doing a course in motivational speaking.She said: “I want people to see that there is a way out.‘There is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
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