The Witness

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Jeni Haynes was, could the six of your personalities to testify against their father

It is only a woman was on The Witness stand That Day , but six people came to testify about the extreme abuse suffered.

"I went to the court, I sat down, I took The Oath , And Then a few hours later, I came back to my body and went out," Jeni Haynes told the Bbc .

As a child, Jeni was repeatedly raped and tortured her father, Richard Haynes, in what the Australian police say, is one of the worst cases of Child Abuse in the country.

dealing with the horror, your mind is using an unusual tactic - the creation of new identities, for to separate it from The Pain . The abuse was so extreme and so persistent, she says she ultimately 2,500 different personalities are generated, in order to survive.

And in The Landmark study, which is faced in March, Jeni, her father, the evidence against him by its personalities, including a four-year-old girl named Symphony.

It is probably The First case in Australia, and perhaps The World , in which a victim with newly-diagnosed Multiple personality disorder (MPD) or Dissociative identity disorder (DID) - testified in their other personalities, and secured a conviction.

"We were not scared. We had been waiting to say for so long Time , everyone is exactly what he did with us and now he was able to shut us up," She Said .

At the 6. September Richard Haynes, 74, was sentenced to 45 Years in prison, of Sydney, court.

warning: Contains descriptions of violence and Child Abuse

'I was not sure in My Own head,'

Haynes family moved from Bexleyheath, London to Australia in 1974. Jeni was four years old, but her father had already started his abuse, and in Sydney, this hurt, which escalated into sadistic, almost on a daily basis.

Jeni ' s multiple personalities were her way to hide her true self from the abuse

"My Father 's abuse was calculated and planned. It was deliberate, and he enjoyed every minute of it," said Jeni, the court in a victim impact statement in may. She waived her anonymity rights, as a victim of abuse, so that her father could be identified.

"He heard me begging him to stop, he heard me cry, he saw The Pain and terror he was attached to me, he saw The Blood and the physical damage he caused. And to do the next day, he chose it all again. "

Haynes also brainwashed to think of his daughter, he could read their minds, She Said . He threatened to kill her mother, Brother and sister, if you even thought about the abuse, let alone to say them.

"My Inner Life was penetrated by Dad. I couldn't even feel safe in My Own head," said Jeni. "I could not check what was happening to me and draw My Own conclusions. "

to try out of their thoughts by a song-texts to hide them:

"he ain't heavy/he's my Brother " - if you think about your siblings.

"hurt do you really want me/ Do you really want to Make Me cry" - if you are thinking about her ordeal.

her father was restricted to minimize your social activities in the school, other adult supervision. Jeni learned to keep small and quiet, because When you see "" like, When your swim coach approached to encourage your father, your natural talents - you would be Punished .

Richard Haynes, together with his three children - Are on The Right

Jeni also denied medical care for their injuries from beatings and sexual abuse, have developed, in serious life-long conditions.

Now, at the age of 49, Jeni irreparable damage to your eyesight, jaws, intestines, anus and the coccyx has. These have required extensive procedures including a colostomy operation in the year 2011.

The abuse would continue until Jeni was 11 When The Family moved back to the UK. Their parents divorced shortly after in 1984. She believes that no one who once knew her mother, what she's been through.

"He was, in fact, miss Symphony,'

Contemporary Australian experts need to speak of Jeni condition like Dissociative identity disorder, and say that it is strongly linked to experiences of extreme violence against a child in what should be a safe and secure environment.

"YOU, is really a "survival strategy"," Dr. Pam Stavropoulos , A Childhood Trauma expert, told the Bbc .

- Jeni says she's a Symphony for most of their Early Childhood

"It serves as a very sophisticated coping strategy, which is widely regarded as extremely. But you have to remember, it is the response to extreme abuse and Trauma experienced by The Child . "

the earlier The Trauma and extreme abuse, the more likely it is to trust a child to cope with differentiation, lead to these "multiple self-States".

The First personality Jeni says, the Symphony, the four-year-old girl who, she says, there is a reality in your own Time has been developed.

"you had every minute of the father, the abuse, and if he abused me, his daughter, Jeni, he was actually abusing Symphony," Jeni told the Bbc .

As The Years went on, the Symphony created other personalities to bear themselves, the abuse. Each of what would be hundreds and hundreds of public figures had a special role that contains an element of abuse, whether it was a particularly horrible attack, or a triggering sight and smell.

"A age would walk from the back of the Symphony head and take the distraction," Jeni told the Bbc .

"my defenses against My Father were changed. "

It is during the discussion that this Symphony presents, about a half-hour into our conversation. Jeni has warned, this could happen, and it is a sign if she does - she struggles to formulate a response before the transition.

"hi, I'm Symphony. Jeni is now in a pickle, I will come and tell you all about this, if you don't mind," she says in a quick burst.

Symphony voice is higher, her tone lighter, more girly and breathless. We're talking 15 Minutes and its microscopic memory of decades-old events around, "Daddy's malignancy" is amazing.

"What I did was, I took everything I thought was precious to me, everything is important and beautiful, and he hid it from daddy, so When he told me he doesn't need to abuse it, a think to be a man," Symphony.

Some of the "people," Jeni says helped her survive figure from Jeni Haynes with your multiple personalities

In March, Jeni was allowed to testify in court, as a Symphony and five other personalities, each of which would have shared different aspects of abuse. The study was conducted by a judge negotiated only because lawyers considered the case as too traumatic for a jury.

Haynes first 367 charges, among them several cases of rape, sodomy, lewd and sensual knowledge of a child's face 10. Jeni, in your personality, have been able to would be to provide detailed evidence of each offense before the court. The separate identities helped her to preserve memories, to be otherwise lost, a Trauma .

the Prosecutor's office also had a number of psychologists and experts lined up, in FACT, the proof of the condition and the reliability of, what would say Jeni.

"My memories as a person with MPD are as pristine today as they were The Day they were formed, she told the Bbc , shortly before the change to the plural. "Our memories are frozen In Time - When I need you, I just go and pick them up. "

Symphony had intended to experience, "in horrible Details" and the details of the crime, in the course of the seven years in Australia. Muscles, a stocky 18-year-old thug who had evidence of physical abuse, while Linda, an elegant young woman, who would have testified on the impact on Jeni, school, and Relationships .

Haynes' family home in Greenacre in Western Sydney

Symphony "was used in the hope to grow the bear witness to, up to," says Jeni. "But we only have through 1974, before he rolled over and showed his belly. He couldn't bear it. "

About two and a half hours of in Symphony The Testimony on the second day of The Trial , her father changed his plea to guilty on 25 charges - "the worst," says Jeni. Dozens more were counted, against his conviction.

'MPD saved my soul"

Jeni first reported the abuse in 2009. It has taken 10 years for The Police investigation to a climax in Richard Hayne 's conviction and jailing.

He was delivered from Darlington in the North East of England in the year 2017, where he had served a seven-year sentence for a crime. He had been living under Jeni's extended family, threw whom he had his daughter as a liar and a manipulator.

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Source of news: bbc.com