Terminally-ill girl disclosed sexual abuse in diary entries before she died

A terminally-ill teenage girl showed diary entries to her mother in which she revealed she had been sexually abused by an elderly man. She died of cancer before her abuser was brought to justice and jailed. Leonard Rickard, 76, took advantage of his victim when she was just seven years old while he was babysitting her. He sexually abused her by kissing her when she played as a princess and went on to to touch her sexually and made her touch him.