A woman who was sold for sex by her own mother has revealed how she suffered a decade of rape from the age of five by men who would pay just £5, The Daily Mail reports.

As a young girl the 48-year old from south London, who has chosen to remain anonymous, was subjected to sex with paedophiles, with her mother receiving money or alcohol in return. 

Even after she was taken into care the abuse continued during weekend visits home and only stopped when Claire* ran away for good at the age of 15.

She remained silent about the abuse for years but suffered a breakdown aged 41 after learning more about her mother’s deplorable crime.

It was only after her mother died that Claire felt brave enough to contact police and report what had happened.

However, because her mother was dead no action could be taken and instead Claire decided to talk about her shocking experiences to help other abuse victims find a voice.

'When I heard my mother had died I actually laughed,' she said. 

'That might sound awful but words cannot describe the hatred and fear I had for that woman after what she forced me to do.

(Claire now has her own family and her children mean everything to her)

Claire was just five years old when she remembers her mother taking her to a man for the first timem the Daily Mail reports.

She had no idea of what was about to happen when her cruel mother ordered her to get dressed that day.

'I remember mum taking me to a block of flats and her knocking the door,' she said. 

'She spoke to the man and then pushed me inside the door.

‘I was so young I just did what I was told. I knew it felt wrong but I was scared and confused and after he gave me a lollipop.’

It was just the beginning as men started calling round more frequently to abuse Claire and her sister Pauline*.

Her mother would allow them to take Claire and Pauline to a disused factory behind their house where they would be raped in exchange for payment.

Claire said: 'Mum would just sneer at me after. I had no idea why she hated me so much. She barely fed us and made us sleep on the floor. I lived in fear of knocks at the door.'

Aged seven she was taken into care and moved into a children’s home.

Appallingly, while she was there she suffered even more abuse, but weekend visits home were even more terrifying.

On one occasion while she was being raped her mother remained in the room with her, and even told her daughter to be quiet when she screamed.

It was only a matter of time before one of the sisters fell pregnant, with Pauline learning that she was expecting a baby at just 14.

Claire says she was so afraid that the same would eventually happen to her that when she was 15 she made the decision to run away, spending the first two weeks away from home sleeping rough in a public toilet.

Eventually she was offered a place to stay by a taxi driver she befriended. The couple soon fell in love and married when Claire was 19.

They went on to have six children together and Claire did her best to push the horrors of her childhood to the back of her mind and focus on being a good mother.

'My children were my world, my everything,' she explained. 

'Having them made it harder to understand how mum could have treated us the way she did.'

Names have been changed