A woman conceived by rape wants her father brought to justice in a so-called 'victimless prosecution'.
Media playback is unsupported on your deviceA woman conceived by rape wants her father brought to justice in a so-called"victimless prosecution", in one of the first cases of its kind, the BBC has learned.
"My birth mum had been 13 - a schoolgirl - and my birth dad was a family friend who was in his 30s," Vicky explains to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. "It was then that I thought, 'I've got DNA evidence, because I am DNA evidence. I'm a walking crime scene. And it's all written in the files. Surely people are going to take me seriously'.
Such prosecutions, officially termed evidence-based, can be used in domestic abuse or rape cases, when the victim has withdrawn or declines to give a statement but it is in the public interest to pursue a prosecution, CPS guidance says. "I am living, breathing proof of a child rapist and nobody is interested. How is that okay?" she says.Labour MP Jess Phillips says it is in the public interest for the alleged perpetrator to face trial
Ms Phillips said the case was definitely in the public interest, as the alleged perpetrator was still alive.
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