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| Tressa got clean from drugs with fiance Darren |
Shockingly, the 12-year-old schoolgirl had fallen pregnant aged just 11 – and later revealed the sickening truth that her brother, Jason, then 16, had raped her and fathered the baby.
Jason was jailed for four years in 2009, after pleading guilty to rape. But Tressa struggled to cope and, after her daughter was taken into care aged two, she turned to drink and drugs.
However, in June this year, life finally appeared to be looking up for brave Tressa, now 18, when she told Closer she was clean from drugs and expecting a baby with her fiancé, Darren Young, 25.
But tragedy struck twice last month, when she suffered a miscarriage, then her mum, Tracey Tallons, 41, died from pneumonia just three days later.
Yet, despite her heartache, Tressa exclusively tells Closer that coming face to face with her brother, now 23 – who was released from prison in March after serving three years of his sentence – at their mum’s funeral two weeks ago, has given her closure. And, incredibly, she even admits she has forgiven him.
She says: “Jason helped carry Mum’s coffin. He was in bits, like I was. We kept our distance and didn’t make eye contact. But we both cried.
“It was the first time I’d seen him in four years – but I didn’t feel any hatred towards him. I know what he did was wrong, and so does he, but my mum wouldn’t want it to ruin our lives. She can rest in peace knowing we’re moving on. I forgive him.”
Heartbreakingly, Tressa, who fell out with Tracey after she refused to cease contact with Jason, had only rebuilt her relationship with her mum shortly before she died.
Tressa says: “We’d decided not to let Jason come between us. I want to have another baby one day and hope Mum looks down on me, proud.”
Tressa, from West Lothian, Scotland was just seven when Jason, then 12, started abusing her. She recalls: “He’d tell Mum he was taking me to the shops, but he’d take me to building sites and say he wanted to teach me about ‘sex education.’”
Aged 11, Tressa fell pregnant but, to “protect” her mum, she said a local boy was the father. She gave birth to a healthy baby girl in June 2006, but Tracey battled drinking problems and, unable to help Tressa care for the baby, they were taken into care three weeks after the birth.
“I didn’t want to leave Mum – I was devastated,” says Tressa. “I struggled to breastfeed, but I did everything else for my baby. I felt like a good mum. Although I could see Jason in her, I still loved her to bits.”
But, two years later, haunted by the horrific sexual abuse she’d suffered, Tressa decided to tell the police the truth.
However, even when DNA tests proved Jason was the dad, Tracey didn’t believe Tressa and refused to cease contact with her rapist son. Tressa says: “I begged her to listen to me, but she said she couldn’t. I didn’t understand. I needed her.”
Tressa suffered a further blow when psychologists decided her baby should be adopted.
“It was heartbreaking, but I understood. I couldn’t face telling her that her uncle was her father when she was older,” Tressa explains. “She was given to new parents, but I was allowed to see her every day for about six months before contact stopped. The last time I saw her was at a crèche – but she was crying for her new parents. It broke my heart.”
In July 2009, Jason was convicted of rape at the High Court in Glasgow and sentenced to four years in prison.
Tressa, who’d been forced to leave school at 14 due to incest taunts, turned to drink and drugs and rarely spoke to Tracey.
In 2010, she met her fiancé, fellow addict Darren, and, by October that year, they were using £800-worth of heroin a day – paid for with benefits and money made from shoplifting.
But, determined to turn their lives around, they both got clean last August. Tressa explains she wanted her daughter – who cannot be named for legal reasons – to be proud of her, saying: “I’d think about her and how horrified she’d be.”
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