"I don't feel as much of a victim," said an adult survivor of child sexual abuse who tracked down her uncle and brought him to justice more than 20 years after she reported his crimes to police.

The woman was two years old when her uncle began molesting her and her older sister. It continued for eight years in the late 80s and early 90s, including in public places.

But it was not until Friday that the woman's uncle, now 65, was jailed.

The woman – the younger of the sisters – told a school friend about her abuse in 1992, prompting a police investigation.

But on the night police arrived at the sister's house to speak to them, the woman said, her father threw her uncle out of the house.