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In a video link from New Zealand, the 38-year-old woman broke down in tears as she described an abusive childhood in which she was regularly beaten at home, treated as a slave by her parents, raped and assaulted by Young and other older men on the island, and left feeling unable to tell anybody.

Most of the rapes took place in secluded areas where she went to collect firewood ( her chore ); she could not tell her mother that she did not want to go, for fear of being beaten.

Even with the rapes, the mother " would still have made me go ," the woman said.

" What she said I had to do.

I had no choice but to go.