With her voice quivering, a city mom told court today how the sexual abuse of her young daughter at the hands of an uncle has devastated their family.

“It hurts me so much to know that my daughter has been violated like this,” the woman said, reading from a prepared victim impact statement.

“In time, hopefully the anger and hurt will subside and hopefully we’ll have a little girl back,” she said.

The uncle, who can’t be named to protect his victim’s identity, repeatedly fondled the girl over a period of at least two years while she visited her grandma’s Calgary home.

The offender also took pornographic photographs of the victim, now six, including of him touching her, which were found deleted from his digital camera.