{"id":122992,"date":"2025-09-08T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:14:08","slug":"southport-inquiry-live-there-is-no-end-to-this-mum-of-southport-survivor-tells-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122992\/","title":{"rendered":"Southport inquiry live: ‘There is no end to this,’ mum of Southport survivor tells inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The fear is that she is changed forever’published at 14:58 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

14:58 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Mairead Smyth
Reporting from the inquiry<\/p>\n

Solicitor Nicola Ryan-Donnelly continues reading the statement from Child U’s mother.<\/p>\n

She tells the inquiry the dreams she had for her daughter and her friend “are gone forever”. <\/p>\n

She says: “I constantly worry about her future. I worry about the long-term effects of this trauma, about how adverse childhood experiences like this shape the adult she will become. <\/p>\n

“I worry that she will carry guilt, shame, fear – none of which belong to her, but all of which were forced upon her.” <\/p>\n

She says much of her daughter’s experiences are “all locked inside” because she still does not “feel safe” enough to share them – even to her mother. <\/p>\n

She says: “But I see it in her in her eyes and in the way she holds herself, in the quiet moments when she thinks no-one else is watching. <\/p>\n

“What I have shared here is only what I\u2019ve been able to witness from the outside, because I am still on the outside in all of this.<\/p>\n

“The rest, the deepest hurt she bears alone every single day. That in itself shows the depth of the damage, that she has learnt to protect herself by staying silent. I don\u2019t like to say it but the fear is that she is changed forever. <\/p>\n

“She lives each day trying to built some sense of safety in a world that betrayed her. She will forever carry the consequences of that day, of his actions forever.<\/p>\n

“This is her reality. This is her life sentence.”<\/p>\n

Those words conclude Child U’s mother’s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘The fear is that she is changed forever’published at 14:58 British Summer Time 14:58 BST Mairead SmythReporting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-122992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}