“My own family rejected me when they found out I was going to report my uncle for sexual abuse”

Posted on July 27, 2024 by angelo

“My own family rejected me when they found out I was going to report my uncle for sexual abuse”

Keely O’Grady, who was abused from the age of six, tells how her ordeal was made worse by her family’s reaction

Keely O’Grady, aged six, when she lived in her grandparents’ house

Six-year-old Keely O’Grady sat in the living room of her grandparents’ house, quietly doing her homework.

Her friend and her friend’s brother were at the same table, heads down and engrossed in their school books, when Keely’s uncle Ronan summoned her to his room.