A New South Wales horse trainer has been sentenced to three years and four months in jail for raping and impregnating a 13-year-old girl in the mid-1990s.

Warning: This story contains details that may distress some readers, including references to abortion.

That girl, now a woman, fought back tears on Thursday while delivering a victim impact statement in the Port Macquarie District Court.

"I'm here today as a woman trying to give voice to the 12-year-old girl I used to be," she said.

"A child who was manipulated, violated and silenced by a man twice her age."

She referred to the child she later terminated.

"I was carrying a child whilst still a child myself. The physical pain, the emotional trauma, the secrecy. I had no say,"

she said.

"My body was used, my life altered. My abilit

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