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(Not written by me. The following is a sensitive topic, so reader discretion is advised. Article edited to remove the word "sufferer").
Autistic girl pimped out by older 'friends' raped by 12 men a night and had two miscarriages before age 13
Taylor Edison, who grew up in a ferry port town in the UK, was raped and pimped out by older men who saw her as an 'easy target'
Taylor Edison was raped and pimped out by older men (picture posed by model)
Lying on a filthy bed, with a box of tissues, a pack of wet wipes and a bottle of vodka beside her, Taylor Edison waited for the next man to arrive.
Aged just 12, the autistic youngster was being raped by up to a dozen men a night after being pimped out by someone she had trusted.
Queuing up outside the bedroom, the men would walk into the room and have sex with her, often without a condom and without saying a word.
They would then leave, so the next abuser could arrive.
A few "obviously embarrassed" men would apologise to Taylor, perhaps ruffling her hair or kissing her forehead as they climbed off her small body.
In future years, she would be horrified to see them around her town, driving taxis and wandering around shops with their families, their secrets hidden.
As an individual with Asperger Syndrome, Taylor struggled to fit into society.
Growing up, she had difficulty making friends and communicating her feelings, while her mum had "problems of her own" and wasn't around much.
This meant she was an easy target for much older abusers, who befriended her before repeatedly raping her and pimping her out to other men.
Taylor describes her horrific ordeal in her new book, I Know What You Are (Photo: Harper Element)
At the time, Taylor, who had two miscarriages before the age of 13, believed her attackers were her friends - something she desperately wished for.
In an eye-opening new book, she reveals how she was "befriended" by an older, married man called Tom, who would cook meals for her.
After struggling to make friends at school, she says she loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her and let her borrow his things.
Tom would come over to her house and have a cup of tea with her mum before going upstairs and sitting on her bed, listening to her.
However, one day, he came into her room and kissed her, Taylor says.
Before long, they were apparently regularly sitting together under a blanket in the living room, with Tom touching her intimately.
"I believed that we were 'in a relationship'," Taylor, who goes by a pseudonym, explains in her book, I Know What You Are, published yesterday.
She adds: "I was prepared to do whatever would make Tom happy, for his own sake and so that I didn't lose my only friend."
Eventually, she says she was raped by Tom in her mum's bed - abuse that left her feeling like she had done "something wrong".
At the time, she was only 11 and living in a ferry port town in the UK.
"I didn't know what he was doing when he turned me over and lay on top of me," she writes. "I had read enough about sex by that time to have a vague idea of what was involved, and I was pretty sure he hadn't put his penis where it was supposed to go."
She goes on to describe how, each time he had abused her, Tom would suddenly stop and go into the bathroom. He would then leave, in silence.
"Looking back on it now, I realise that he probably felt guilty and ashamed of what he was doing," she explains in her book.
Speaking to Mirror Online, Taylor, now 22, adds that she "didn't like" Tom when she first met him.
However, she says that he began coming round, cooking for her and letting her borrow his possessions - which meant a lot to her.
"It was the little things," she says, adding that how she felt about Tom's behaviour linked back to "not having much as a child".
Referring to the later incidents in her mum's bedroom, she describes how the married man "wouldn't talk to me after doing certain things".
"I thought I'd done something wrong," she says. "On the media, I'd see a couple sleep together then always cuddle up and have a cup of tea."
As a youngster, Taylor lived in a "doss-house" with her mother, where she was surrounded by "weed-smoking" adults, drug addicts and alcoholics.
She says she never knew her dad, while her mum often told her she was "retarded".
She was eventually diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.
She describes how she became so confused and lonely that she would have "done almost anything" to feel her mum loved her, or that she had a friend.
"I had a very blinkered childhood," Taylor tells Mirror Online.
"I didn't really have many other children around me to compare it to."
She says she realised her childhood was different from others' after starting school.
"When I started going to school. I'd say how many people we had staying at my mum's house... It made me start realising," she says.
She adds that, as a young girl, she would turn things into a "monetary measure".
She would notice that other children had new shoes, or had just been on holiday, and would ask her mum why she didn't have the "latest things".
During her childhood, Taylor found a man dead from an overdose at her home and helped her stepbrothers to shoplift, according to her book.
"I was just five," she tells Mirror Online. "We'd go out altogether. This is before the days of CCTV. I would go up to the counter and talk to the shop assistant.
"I would say I was looking for a present for my mum. I had a script telling me what to do. I would then change my mind and go out the shop."
She says her stepbrothers would steal products such as razors, perfume and DVDs.
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Autistic girl pimped out by older 'friends' raped by 12 men a night and had two miscarriages before age 13
Taylor Edison, who grew up in a ferry port town in the UK, was raped and pimped out by older men who saw her as an 'easy target'
Taylor Edison was raped and pimped out by older men (picture posed by model)
Lying on a filthy bed, with a box of tissues, a pack of wet wipes and a bottle of vodka beside her, Taylor Edison waited for the next man to arrive.
Aged just 12, the autistic youngster was being raped by up to a dozen men a night after being pimped out by someone she had trusted.
Queuing up outside the bedroom, the men would walk into the room and have sex with her, often without a condom and without saying a word.
They would then leave, so the next abuser could arrive.
A few "obviously embarrassed" men would apologise to Taylor, perhaps ruffling her hair or kissing her forehead as they climbed off her small body.
In future years, she would be horrified to see them around her town, driving taxis and wandering around shops with their families, their secrets hidden.
As an individual with Asperger Syndrome, Taylor struggled to fit into society.
Growing up, she had difficulty making friends and communicating her feelings, while her mum had "problems of her own" and wasn't around much.
This meant she was an easy target for much older abusers, who befriended her before repeatedly raping her and pimping her out to other men.
Taylor describes her horrific ordeal in her new book, I Know What You Are (Photo: Harper Element)
At the time, Taylor, who had two miscarriages before the age of 13, believed her attackers were her friends - something she desperately wished for.
In an eye-opening new book, she reveals how she was "befriended" by an older, married man called Tom, who would cook meals for her.
After struggling to make friends at school, she says she loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her and let her borrow his things.
Tom would come over to her house and have a cup of tea with her mum before going upstairs and sitting on her bed, listening to her.
However, one day, he came into her room and kissed her, Taylor says.
Before long, they were apparently regularly sitting together under a blanket in the living room, with Tom touching her intimately.
"I believed that we were 'in a relationship'," Taylor, who goes by a pseudonym, explains in her book, I Know What You Are, published yesterday.
She adds: "I was prepared to do whatever would make Tom happy, for his own sake and so that I didn't lose my only friend."
Eventually, she says she was raped by Tom in her mum's bed - abuse that left her feeling like she had done "something wrong".
At the time, she was only 11 and living in a ferry port town in the UK.
"I didn't know what he was doing when he turned me over and lay on top of me," she writes. "I had read enough about sex by that time to have a vague idea of what was involved, and I was pretty sure he hadn't put his penis where it was supposed to go."
She goes on to describe how, each time he had abused her, Tom would suddenly stop and go into the bathroom. He would then leave, in silence.
"Looking back on it now, I realise that he probably felt guilty and ashamed of what he was doing," she explains in her book.
Speaking to Mirror Online, Taylor, now 22, adds that she "didn't like" Tom when she first met him.
However, she says that he began coming round, cooking for her and letting her borrow his possessions - which meant a lot to her.
"It was the little things," she says, adding that how she felt about Tom's behaviour linked back to "not having much as a child".
Referring to the later incidents in her mum's bedroom, she describes how the married man "wouldn't talk to me after doing certain things".
"I thought I'd done something wrong," she says. "On the media, I'd see a couple sleep together then always cuddle up and have a cup of tea."
As a youngster, Taylor lived in a "doss-house" with her mother, where she was surrounded by "weed-smoking" adults, drug addicts and alcoholics.
She says she never knew her dad, while her mum often told her she was "retarded".
She was eventually diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.
She describes how she became so confused and lonely that she would have "done almost anything" to feel her mum loved her, or that she had a friend.
"I had a very blinkered childhood," Taylor tells Mirror Online.
"I didn't really have many other children around me to compare it to."
She says she realised her childhood was different from others' after starting school.
"When I started going to school. I'd say how many people we had staying at my mum's house... It made me start realising," she says.
She adds that, as a young girl, she would turn things into a "monetary measure".
She would notice that other children had new shoes, or had just been on holiday, and would ask her mum why she didn't have the "latest things".
During her childhood, Taylor found a man dead from an overdose at her home and helped her stepbrothers to shoplift, according to her book.
"I was just five," she tells Mirror Online. "We'd go out altogether. This is before the days of CCTV. I would go up to the counter and talk to the shop assistant.
"I would say I was looking for a present for my mum. I had a script telling me what to do. I would then change my mind and go out the shop."
She says her stepbrothers would steal products such as razors, perfume and DVDs.
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