'My trusted babysitter raped me when I was a child during eight years of sexual abuse' When Michael Whilding's victim was 11 years old she would dream of walking in front of a bus or lorry to end her fear after he subjected her to years of grotesque abuse The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now The little girl in the picture below was only six years old when that photo was taken. A primary school pupil with a loving family behind her, and the whole world in front of her, it should have been a time of excitement and possibility and nothing else.