Short Story Of Luke Driver

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She knew she didn't like it, and fought to make it stop, but she really didn't understand what was happening to her was a crime. The unnamed victim started getting repeatedly raped by a 14-year-old boy when she was just 9-year's-old. The sexual assaults on the girl that began in 2009 continued for two years.

Fear was used by Luke Driver to torture the child into doing what he wanted by locking her in a closet filled with spiders until she would do what he wanted her to. He knew the spiders terrified her, and that was how he would force her to give into his sexual demands.

It took the young girl years to realize what Driver was doing to her was wrong. She didn't even know what sex was when the rapes occurred, but she found out she was a

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