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BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH

A WOMAN who sued her alleged rapist and long-time abuser - who impregnated her when she was 14, almost 45 years ago - has reached an out-of-court settlement with him.

In terms of the arrangement, Southern Cape businessman Peter Jackson denied ever raping or sexually assaulting Gaynor Duggan when they were growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s, and Duggan withdrew her allegations.

Jackson regretted the "role he played in her trauma" and the consequences she would continue to suffer.

Clinical neuropsychologist Cora de Villiers and counselling psychologist Rosa Bredekamp found the consequences Duggan manifested were …