Rodney Edwards: If you caused this pain do the right thing and hand yourself into police

With sadness in her eyes, ‘Emma’ gave me an articulate, detailed and almost forensic account of what she experienced at the hands of evil men and one wicked woman almost 20 years ago. If you have read any of her hard-hitting testimonies in the previous pages you, like me, will have been moved to tears.
In total I spent over eight hours with Emma and her family in recent weeks and it was a profoundly moving experience as we sat at the kitchen table in their home discussing how her innocence was so cruelly taken away from her and all instigated, it is claimed, by a woman who had gained their trust.
At times Emma had to pause to compose herself, the pain of those recollections still etched on her face. Words were not even needed. But when she spoke she did so with such clarity that you felt like you were in those homes in Lisnaskea, Maguiresbridge and outside Fivemiletown.
I have little people in my circle who are the age Emma was when she was first sexually abused in a home she was supposed to be safe in. They wear similar clothes that she used to wear, they own the same glittery wellies she ran about in, they have the same curiosity, mischievousness and innocence she had when she was a little girl.
You don’t need to be a parent to feel sick at the thought of the trauma inflicted on this girl and other children over several years. What is also disturbing is that none of these people have ever been arrested, charged or prosecuted for their part in these crimes.
But hopefully that will change now that Emma is prepared to make a formal statement.
She says there are other victims out there, including a little boy who is now a man and still living in the community who experienced the same shocking levels of child sex abuse. 
She hopes he and others will find the confidence to come forward.
Her family, as you can imagine, are finding this entire experience distressing. How do you compute any of these recollections? They blame themselves. They say they will take these regrets to their graves. But they were tricked and manipulated, they were lied to again and again. And rather that give up they have stood firm for Emma. 
They made the call to this newspaper that so many have now done, they wanted to share their story and only felt the strength because of the very many who have spoken out in recent weeks.
Lord Maurice Morrow is also to be commended for sticking by the family even though he is no longer an MLA for the area. 
The fact that this young woman has not yet seen her tormentors brought to justice still troubles him, even after all these years away from Stormont. 
He intends to continue to support this family in the time ahead.
Don’t underestimate the scale of what you have been reading in this newspaper. What started as a look into a suspected paedophile ring in Enniskillen over two months ago has evolved into something even bigger; clusters of abuse on a significant level in towns and villages throughout Fermanagh and sometimes a questionable response from the authorities such as the police.
These conversations are only happening because of the courage and bravery of victims who have decided to tell their stories in the hope of finding closure and helping others.
The onus is now on the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Public Prosecution Service to do everything in their power to bring these people to justice. 
If you have any information about historical sex abuse in Fermanagh, particularly what occurred in Lisnaskea, Maguiresbridge and outside Fivemiletown the onus is on you to report it to police on 101. 
And if you are reading this and were responsible for stealing part of Emma’s childhood all those years ago do the right thing, the only thing, and hand yourself into police. Give this young woman back part of the life you and others so cruelly took from her with your wickedness.