Bolsover MP who was raped gets backing over planned law change
By: | Published: 2025-06-24 05:04:00 | Source: www.bbc.com
Political editor, BBC East Midlands
BBC“You’ve ruined your life, not only for you, but for your unborn daughter.”
Natalie Fleet fell pregnant at 15 and says she was made to feel like it was entirely her fault, despite being a victim of statutory rape.
The Labour MP for Bolsover in Derbyshire is now campaigning to change the law to stop rapists having parental rights – and says she has the the prime minister’s backing.
Fleet grew up on a council estate in Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, where she started seeing an older man.
“He tells me all the things a young girl wants to hear, and I thought that it was lovely,” she said. “I thought that it was serious.”
But when she told…
