Name: Out of the Shadows: Born from Rape | BBC News
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Do I look like the man who raped my birth mother?

No-one wants to talk about what we're going through.

SHE SPEAKS INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE He was my angel.

I'm putting... ..the... ..one of the hardest stories about my life out there.

That was literally just minutes after I'd give birth to him.

I were only 14 when I met a man called Arshad Hussain.

He was ten years older than me, and from that moment, he began grooming me.

I thought, that's how love was supposed to be.

But I still remember him being in my arms.

And I just had that moment, that instant bond, that I think only a mother kind of, you know, feels.

But as I got older, I started to understand what had happened to me.

A piece of young girls in Rotherham was deep-rooted...

Arshad Hussain was the ringleader behind...

Sammy Woodhouse gave birth to a son after she was raped.

I remember when those thoughts first started running through my head.

I thought, what am I going to tell my son?

I couldn't see a light at the end of the tunnel.

My son were only 12 when I had to tell him that his dad had raped and abused me.

He didn't want to be the person who he was.

There must be others out there feeling the same way.

The worst feeling is feeling like you're alone.

You're questioning everything about yourself.

Looking in the mirror, almost like I could see the man who raped my mother looking back at me.

You grow up with all these ideas of who you are.

You're kind and you're nice and you're loving.

And then you find out you were conceived in a really violent, almost hateful way.

Neil grew up adopted and Tracey's birth mother when he was 27.

It was then that he discovered he were born after she was raped by a stranger in a park.

When you hear those words, it's like somebody's... ..almost like a video game punched into your chest and ripped your inside out.

So I did meet with my birth mother and one of the first things I said to her was, if I look like the man who did this to you, walk away.

She said, it's fine, you don't look like him.

The man who did that to my birth mother is...

You know, I can't be clear enough about this.

But, no, I wouldn't want anything to do with him.

To all intents and purposes, I don't think of myself as having a birth father.

For me, what's kind of hard to sit here and listen to is that you had all this to deal with...

So I'm kind of just sat here thinking, erm, I feel, in a way, like I've failed him.

I think, by being open and honest, you've done the best by him.

So long as there is love there and you can show that love and explain that how he was conceived is the most unimportant thing in the world.

You're part of me and that's the important thing.

And we might have to work at it more every day than most families because we're both hurting.

But we're together and that's the important thing and you're my son.

I've tried so hard to be the best mum I can to my son.

But no matter how much I love him, he still has his shadow hanging over him.

And I know he has questions about his dad, but I don't know whether the reality would really help him.

The next train to arrive at platform one...

I packed some nappies... ..for the child.

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Out of the Shadows: Born from Rape | BBC News

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