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It was like going through a door which had been locked all my life I had walked past it every single day afraid to even rattle the handle Now I was smashing the locks I was wrenching it from the hinges and I was marching through Here I am

A woman whose mother twice tried to kill her as a child has won a groundbreaking battle in the supreme courts for the right to claim compensation Monica Allans legal victory set a precedent and has opened the floodgates for others to claim in her wake Thanks to her 12year legal fight other victims now have hope Other victims now have a voice

In her memoir Monica 54 tells the story of her childhood when her mother Betty Mount forced her head under running bathroom taps and tried to strangle her She had previously tried to kill Monica as a baby

Monica was taken into foster care where her new parents ran a brutal regime To the outside world the family was devoutly religious and respectable but behind closed doors Monica was physically and sexually abused

Failed by a second mother figure she moved into her own home aged 18 and went on to have four children Monica loved her children but battled constantly with the demons from her past She carried her dark secrets around with her for 40 years until in 2010 haunted by her trauma she finally decided to seek justice She was told she could not seek compensation because of the same roof rule meaning victims who lived with their attackers up to 1979 were ineligible for payouts

For the past 12 years Monica has been fighting her case through the Supreme Courts and was recently awarded compensation from CICA in respect of the sexual abuse she suffered in foster care She is awaiting a second settlement for the attacks by her mother