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	Sky Sports presenter Charlie Webster has opened up about her own experiences with sexual abuse at a sports conference.</p>
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	The 32-year-old broadcaster, who has been dating Irish actor Allen Leech for nearly a year, was a guest speaker at the Sports Respects Your Rights conference in Vienna.</p>
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	And she said that the only way to truly convey her message is to speak her about being abused as a teenager by an athletics coach.</p>
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	&quot;I hate statistics; I&#39;m really not a numbers person but I&#39;m kind of getting annoyed with the phrase &#39;one in five&#39;. One in five women in the UK have experienced sexual abuse,&quot; she said in a special Glamour magazine news feature ahead of her talk onThursday. &quot;One in five women in Europe have experience sexual abuse. One in five women in the world has experienced sexual abuse.</p>
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	&quot;If you look around you now, or the next time you head out, and realise how many people &#39;one in five&#39; actually is, it really hits you - that is a hell of a lot of women who have been sexually abused, or will be.&quot;</p>
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	Webster explained that in order to deviate from statistics, it&#39;s important to remember the people being affected by abuse.</p>
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	&quot;I realised I had to tell my story,&quot; she said. &quot;I&#39;ve spoken before about the sexual abuse I experienced as a teenager by my running coach. My experience shows how easily sexual abuse can happen; how people in a position of trust can use their authority to manipulate.</p>
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	&quot;It shows how hard it is to utter a single word to anyone. When something bad happens, your instinct is to protect yourself, and sometimes you surround yourself in denial.&quot;</p>
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	She has previously spoken out about the abuse, which happened when she was 15. Her coach was sentenced to a 10-year prison sentence and has been put on the sex offender&#39;s register for the rest of his life.</p>
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