I blocked out being sexually abused aged 12 at a sleepover but when I told my parents 12 years later I felt betrayed

BRACING herself, Franky Dean made the phone call she had been dreading all day.

She was 24 and had just reported her abuser to the police 12 years after she was molested as a child – and she was about to tell her parents.

Franky Dean was just 12 years old when she was sexually abused by her friend’s dadLorna Roach Franky reported the abuse 12 years later but was shocked to realise her parents already knewSupplied

Franky, now 25, knew it would be a difficult conversation...