'Learn from someone who loves her': Woman confronts parents who sexually abused her as child
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A incestuous child abuse survivor confronted her biological mother and father on US television more than 20 years after they sexually abused her.
Amanda said her parents plied her with alcohol from the age of 11 until she was 13 to make her “comfortable" in having sex with them.
She said her twisted mother took photos and videos of herself and her daughter's sexual encounters with intentions to sell them online.
The depraved couple known only as Jim and Justine, were convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison each in 1996 after pleading guilty to the incestuous attacks.
Justine served 15 years and Jim served 16 years.
The victim confronted her parents on the Dr Phil show on November 17, which was the first time she had seen them since their arrest.
Amanda, who is now in her 30s, looked across at her mother and explained how her mother stole her "innocence".
"My parents forced me to have sex with them," she said.
“Justine would show me how good sex would feel by having sex in front of me with my father."
Amanda said things would go back to a normal family routine after her parents got what they wanted.
“Afterwards, it was a normal night, dessert, brush my teeth and bedtime."
She also said she was constantly rewarded with things she wanted "in exchange for her silence".
“In what parallel universe does a mother watch her daughter performing a sex act on her husband and her father?” Dr. Phil asked Justine.
Amanda said it was hard to grasp on to the idea that her parents were out of prison after the sickening abuse.
After expressing remorse for her daughter, Justine played the victim and tried to push all of the blame on to Jim, claiming he was abusive toward her.
"Jim found out how much money could be made from child porn,” she said.
"Jim would talk about how it would be better if she learned about sex from someone who truly loves her than from a stranger.”
The twisted mother said she tried to fight it for three months but claimed Jim would attach clothes pins to her private parts and groomed his daughter while she slept.
Justine said that eventually she gave in, took part in the heinous crimes and had sex with her daughter.
"If I could take it all back I would. I hate myself for what I did,” she said.
Amanda told Dr Phil that she has still never received a full apology from her dad.
"After he got out of prison, Jim got in touch with me through Facebook,” she said.
"When I found that he was just as manipulative as I remembered, I chose to break off the relationship."
She went on to scold her mother for not acknowledging that she had played a significant part in the sick acts.
"I want Justine to give me a sincere apology,” Amanda said.
"She refuses to acknowledge that she had any significant part in this, but there are videos where you can clearly see she was definitely not unwilling.
"It takes every bit of effort in me not to wish harm on Justine."
The second installment of the show airs Thursday in the US and in it Jim admitted the sex was "mechanical" after concluding he was the mastermind behind the sexual abuse.
"I never had guilty or second thoughts after my first time with Amanda. She was 12 years old," he said.
