As a mum-of-four married to her childhood sweetheart, Jennifer Christie was blissfully happy.
But, in January 2014, her contented life was shattered when she was subjected to a brutal sexual assault. Beaten and raped by a stranger, she was left with fractured ribs and broken fingers from desperately trying to fight off her attacker.
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Physically and emotionally scarred, just five weeks later Jennifer was hit by a life-changing discovery – she was pregnant with her rapist’s baby. But, rather than have a termination, as many women understandably would in that position, she and her husband of 22 years, Jeff, 43, made the incredible decision to raise the child together and, in September 2014, she gave birth to her son, Oliver*.
Jennifer, 42, says, “When I saw the positive pregnancy…
