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A woman who says she was raped up to 60 times in a NHS psychiatric hospital in Kent has said she "was a defeated person" after the abuse. The woman, who was an in-patient at Little Brook Hospital in Dartford, told Victoria Derbyshire the care worker who abused her had said he'd help secure her discharge if she complied. She had had a nervous breakdown and was anorexic and taking valium when the abuse began. After leaving the unit she told a community psychiatric nurse about the abuse. In 2008 the care worker was arrested and subsequently pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a patient and was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years. He was also told he could never work with vulnerable people again. The patient, who received a letter of apology from Kent and Medway NHS Trust and compensation of £100,000, has never spoken before about the abuse, which she says made her feel like "an abused dog".