Woman whose scientist father plied her with bootleg alcohol to rape her from the age of 11 and performed DIY abortions after getting her pregnant twice shares her harrowing story in a new book
- Kim Chown, 52, from Darlington, Durham spoke of horrific abuse suffered at hands of dad Francis Beaumont
- Paedophile father was renowned microbiologist and lecturer at prestigious universities around the world
- She lived a life of forced depravity and rape at his hands - shares experiences in book Who Will Believe You?
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In 2018, he was finally brought to justice and jailed for 20 years for five counts of rape, after Kim's husband eventually persuaded her to report him to the police.
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Kim, who now lives in County Durham and runs a successful business, has been sober for four years since going into rehab shortly after reporting her father to the police.
Depraved Leeds lecturer raped daughter for years and forced her to have two abortions
Former university lecturer Francis Beaumont, 79, was jailed for 20 years after being convicted of five offences of rape against Kim Chown.
Mrs Chown spoke out after her father was jailed in the hope it will encourage other victims of sexual abuse by a parent to come forward.
She told the Yorkshire Evening Post she had chosen to waive her right to anonymity in the hope of becoming an ambassador for victims of similar abuse.
This story is gruesome and the DIY abortion with a coathanger aspect reminds me of the film Sybil with Sally Field, which has a horrible scene in which Sybil's mother performs a DIY gynaecological operation on her daughter on the kitchen table.
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For someone so horribly abused by her father, this woman looks remarkably relaxed and happy in the photos with him, including the one with her arm hooked round his neck at the age of 21. The reference to her alcoholism reminds me of Rolf Harris's main accuser's apparent struggle with the bottle and the desire to become an ambassador for abuse victims to the Rolf Harris accuser in one of his subsequent trials who the defence said had jumped on the bandwagon because she had similar ambitions.
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