Dad 'gave up job to give him more time to sexually abuse daughter' during years of torture

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A sexual abuse victim said her dad gave up his job to give him more time to sexually abuse her when she was a child.Emily Victoria was just two-years-old when her own father started to molest her.

He sexually abused the youngster throughout her childhood, right up until she left home when she was 17-years-old.Emily, now 31, speaks about her horrifying abuse in a new Channel 4 documentary - A Paedophile in My Family: Surviving Dad - which airs this evening, reports the Mirror.The businesswoman, from Dorset, attempts to find answers as to why she had to endure such abuse from her father and tells of how she started to resent her mum, Kathy, for not noticing what was going on at home.Mum-of-one Emily said she did feel sorry for her mum, but also said she struggled to forgive her for being ignorant to her husband's behaviour.Speaking candidly to the cameras, Emily said: "Imagine if your dad wanted to be with you instead of your mum.

Can you imagine what that feels like?"And then how horrible it makes you feel? And I just felt sorry for her all the time. I might have resented her as well, so thought, like, 'Why weren't you able to see or whatever?'"Emily said to the outside, her family looked like any other.When she turned eight, her dad quit his estate agency job to become a foster parent at home, while her mother worked long hours.Talking of her abuser, Emily explained: "He was like a really popular person on the surface.

Popular with everyone, very good at hiding this stuff."She would often miss school when her father kept her off to abuse her, and as she was filmed looking through a Year 7 school report, she said: "This is the year when I felt like I died."While her dad initially used condoms, Emily was then placed on the