POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) -- A young woman is taking action against Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, two of his detectives and other employees regarding the investigation of her child rape.

Taylor Cadle, who is now 22 years old and a mother, said moving forward with the lawsuit is nerve-wracking.

"I don't want anybody to ever have to go through what I went through,” she said.

Cadle has been on both sides of the legal system, as a victim and a suspect, all before her 14th birthday.

"I think it just made it really, really hard to trust people, I would say. It's definitely hard to trust people, especially people I should probably trust,” she said.

According to a federal lawsuit filed by attorneys on Cadle’s behalf, her great uncle and adoptive father Henry Cadle sexually abused her between

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