'I've taken control by telling of Cannock Chase sex abuse'
By day she attended a private school, practised the piano and cello, and went to church on Sundays.
By night she was taken to Cannock Chase to suffer the most vile abuse.
To the outside world, even to her own mother, she appeared to enjoy a normal happy childhood but the truth was very different.
This week Esther Baker waived her right to anonymity to speak out about the ritual sexual violation she suffered as a child growing up in a decent, religious, middle-class home in Staffordshire.
In an exclusive interview with the Express & Star she talked about the effect the regular assaults in the 1980s and 90s have had on her life.
She became an alcoholic, attempted suicide a number of times and has continued to fall victim to abusers. She says she has spent her life on the run, trying to escape them.
Esther was about six when the abuse started. She was taken to Cannock Chase and to other people's homes where she was regularly raped, along with other children, always at night when her mother, a nurse, was at work.
"She worked night shifts, starting at 7pm and finishing at 7am, so she never even knew I'd left the house. I was always told not to tell anyone and, if I did, that she would be hurt. There were lots of threats.
"I was really close to my mother so I wasn't going to say anything. I just put up a barrier around myself. I disassociated myself from that little girl. I didn't see her as me a lot of the time."
