A woman from Lincoln who was repeatedly raped by her grandad for seven years and sold to hundreds of paedophiles has spoken out for the first time.
Karl Barker started to groom Emma Louise when she was just 11-years-old by buying her cigarettes and getting her to drink alcohol.
He later moved onto sexual assault and raped her on “many occasions” before taking her to dogging sites and selling her to around 200 paedophiles for sex.
The ordeal has been revealed in detail for the first time in a new book called “Grandad’s Girl” where Emma tells her true story of survival.
The front cover of her new book.
Ahead of the book’s release, the abuse survivor told The Sun about the attacks, revealing she was gradually groomed with alcohol and cigarettes before her grandad convinced her to sleep in his bed.
He then forced her to perform oral sex on him and raped her.
She went on to tell The Sun how he had driven her to a lay-by off the Lincoln bypass so that a man could pay to have sex with her.
Her grandad Karl Barker pictured here. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
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