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Warning: This article discusses sexual abuse and may upset some readers.
It was not the sexual violence or years of trauma that finally broke a victim's silence, but a chilling moment in adulthood, when her perpetrator stood in her kitchen, boasting of being "proud" of his life.
The remark felt so brazen, it ripped open the locked boxes of pain she carried and gave her the courage to report Geoffery Miller to the authorities.
Now, Miller, 53, has appeared in the WhangΔrei District Court for sentencing on historical sexual abuse charges relating to two victims in separate decades.
Earlier this year, he was found guilty by a jury of 12 charges, including rap
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