“They told me that I was a liar, that I was a coward, that they knew the truth . . . because the other kids had already told the truth. Pure and simple psychological violence, that’s what it was. I mean, she talked for an hour a week, for four and a half years, to a little girl who was crying . . . Unperturbed, she carried on with her narrative. Anything I said was of no importance.”

