A woman has told how her childhood was blighted after she was raped 'three or four times a week' by her sadistic father when she was just 12-years-old. Carol Higgins, 50, from Pontefract in West Yorkshire, says her dad Elliot Appleyard, 72, treated her as his new wife after his marriage to her mother Jean broke down. Waiving her right to anonymity, Carol told Femail how she hid a 'dirty ...