"I really struggle to get my head around how a human being could treat another human being the way I was treated," the victim said in a statement. "Why did it happen to me? I can barely sleep as I keep reliving the whole thing and if I do sleep, I wake up terrified from recurring nightmares. The knock-on-effect of the assault and the damage it has caused to myself, and my family, will last forever. Nothing will ever be the same again."