12 July,2011 11:08 AM IST | | ANI
A Welsh girl, whose stepfather was cleared of raping her after a jury accepted he suffered from 'sexsomnia', has revealed that she now suffers nightmares she fears will never go away
Kirsty Merriman was just 16-years-old when her mother's partner, Stephen Lee Davies, had sex with her against her will.
Davies said he could not remember having intercourse with the teenager - despite speaking to her at the time, and then leaving his bedroom to make a hot drink afterwards.
"I've been to hell and back and I'm still having nightmares and suffering from depression," the Daily Mail quoted her as telling the Sunday Mirror.
"I don't understand how a court cannot say I was raped when someone had sex with me against my will," she stated.
She also added that her "body felt violated" and the nightmares she is having "will never go away".
Merriman, who is now 17, has a young baby with her boyfriend.
