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‘I was completely vulnerable’: woman tells of alleged abuse by ‘counsellor’

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66% Informative

Sarah

moved across the country to a new town in her late 30s after fleeing a decade -long abusive marriage.

Her new GP diagnosed her with depression and she started to see a female therapist.

But when she failed to see noticeable improvement, she decided to take up the offer of help from her charismatic choirmaster, who told her he was a qualified counsellor.

After three months of counselling sessions that she now alleges were a grooming period, they started having sex.

She claims he used the information she had shared about her vulnerabilities to make her progressively more reliant on him.

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62

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57

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62

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informal

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English

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45

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likely offensive

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medium-lived

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