Jessica Stallings has given repeated interviews where she agreed to discuss the case but not reveal her face. She says she was raped by her uncle from the age of 12 onwards and now has two children by him. She is now 32
An Alabama woman who says she was raped by her uncle repeatedly as a teenager and forced to marry him after he fathered two children has spoken out to complain about a court forcing her to let him see the kids.
Jessica Stallings, 32, has publicly identified herself in interviews to describe being raped by her uncle Lenion Richard Barnett, who she says started 'climbing into her bed' when she was 12 and he was 19 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Over the next seven years, Barnett, who is her mother's half-brother, impregnated her four times.
Her first pregnancy, when she was just 14, ended in miscarriage.
When she was 16, she gave birth to their son. At 18, she had another child who died. Aged 19, she had their last child, another boy.
Sickeningly, her family forced her to marry him but the marriage was annulled by a court which deemed it illegal because they are related.
I've spent my entire life scared to death of my rapist, and now, I'm fighting him for custody of my children
Jessica Stallings
Despite that and the fact that DNA testing proves he is the children's father, the uncle has never been arrested or convicted of sex crimes.
Stallings ran away with the children.
But in 2015, Barnett was released from prison on unrelated drug charges.
He sought custody of the children upon his release.
To protect them, Stallings reported the rapes for the first time but a grand jury declined to prosecute and their reason for the decision is
