04:40 EDT, 22 February 2021
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Faith Reeves still remembers the magical moment 18 years ago when her doting husband first cradled their newborn daughter in his arms.
After already welcoming two sons, the long-awaited birth of their first girl, Hope, was marked by celebration for the growing Queensland family.
But the once-beautiful memory is now a sickening reminder of the years of horrific sexual abuse that would befall Hope at the hands of her father Richard James Smith.
In Faith's mind, that loving first embrace will now forever be contrasted with the nauseating sight when she stumbled upon him 15 years later groping their baby girl's breast.