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From incest victim to honours law graduate, one woman's triumph over abuse

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Years after her Jehovah's Witness father was jailed for sexually abusing her, Shelly Braieoux's path to justice will come full circle today when she walks out of a Brisbane court as a lawyer.

She later discovered her father had abused her other sisters. So, fuelled by anger and betrayal, she confronted him during meetings with the elders.

"They said I didn't have two eyewitnesses to each of my assaults," she said of the religion's judicial policy. In 2004, after a third trial, her father was convicted and sentenced to three years' jail on one count each of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault, and four counts of indecent assault."It wasn't until later on that I realised it wasn't her role. She had changed job descriptions," she said.

 

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