A JUDGE has blasted a “wicked” mother who let her husband rape her daughter from the age of ten.
The 44-year-old stepfather got the girl pregnant at least twice after subjecting her to a vile catalogue of abuse for six years.
He was jailed for 20 years today after a jury convicted him of impregnating his stepdaughter.
His wife, the girl’s birth mother, had allowed the abuse to take place and refused to listen when her daughter pleaded for help for fear that her husband would end their relationship.
The couple’s sentencing had been delayed when the woman defendant suffered a panic attack on the morning she was due to appear via video link before a packed public gallery at Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday.
The tears you shed are for yourself. I do not think any of them are for your daughter. I am not in any way influenced. You have not shown any sign of remorse
judge Francis Sheridan
As the mother burst into tears today, as she appeared via video link to receive her three-year sentence for neglect, sentencing judge Francis Sheridan told her: “The tears you shed are for yourself. I do not think any of them are for your daughter. I am not in any way influenced.
“You have not shown any sign of remorse.
“It is time somebody told you to your face – and I will: You were a wicked mother. When your daughter complained, her complaints were dismissed. You will take that dismissal to the grave. You betrayed your daughter to stand by your husband.
“She has gone through what can only be described as a life of hell. There must have been times in her young life where there appeared to be almost no remission from abuse.”
The step-father, referred to as the first defendant, began sexually assaulting his victim when she was ten while they were on holiday in Southport and then continuously raped and sexually assaulted his victim in her own home until she was 16 years old.
At one point his brother, a man who had spent some time in a mental hospital, was left alone with the step daughter and also began to rape her. When the step-father learned of this, he continued to allow the brother to visit the family home.
When she was aged 12 years, she found she was pregnant. She had a termination of the pregnancy. She did not want to have that termination
Angus Robertson, prosecuting
Prosecuting counsel, Angus Robertson, described an incident where the step-father raped the young girl while they were in the living room watching football on TV and the mother shouted downstairs to ask what they were doing. The step-father had shouted back ‘nothing’, and no more was said but the girl maintained in court the mother had known.
Mr Robertson said: “When she was aged 12 years, she found she was pregnant. She had a termination of the pregnancy. She did not want to have that termination. The first defendant told the second defendant that if the pregnancy wasn’t terminated he would end the relationship and leave her.
“The second defendant always insisted that a young man was responsible and the girl should tell the boy he was the father. The first defendant continued to have regular intercourse with the victim after that termination.
“She became pregnant again when she was 13 years old, told her mother the father was the first defendant and said they could have her child. Both defendants were attempting to have a child of their own. Her mother considered this, but told her to ‘get rid of it’.”
The judge said two of the girl’s pregnancies were undoubtedly conceived after the step-father raped her and there was some question over the third – the girl had, in her own words, become “wayward” as a result of the abuse and taken boyfriends from a very young age.
Judge Sheridan’s comments to the girl’s mother:
The tears you shed are for yourself. I do not think any of them are for your daughter. I am not in any way influenced.
You have not shown any sign of remorse.
It is time somebody told you to your face – and I will: You were a wicked mother. When your daughter complained, her complaints were dismissed. You will take that dismissal to the grave. You betrayed your daughter to stand by your husband.
She has gone through what can only be described as a life of hell. There must have been times in her young life where there appeared to be almost no remission from abuse.
Judge Sheridan’s comments to the stepfather:
You were a thoroughly evil and wicked step-father. Let’s call it exactly what it is. That is the finding of the jury.
The jury believed your step-daughter. That is her first step to recovery from a life of hell inflicted by you, with the sex drive of a monster.
You treated your step-daughter as an object. If you wanted sexual contact, she had to deliver and the poor little thing was scared to say anything and when she did, her complaints were dismissed.
Addressing the step-father, who appeared via video link, Judge Sheridan said: “You were a thoroughly evil and wicked step-father. Let’s call it exactly what it is. That is the finding of the jury.
“The jury believed your step-daughter. That is her first step to recovery from a life of hell inflicted by you, with the sex drive of a monster.
“You treated your step-daughter as an object. If you wanted sexual contact, she had to deliver and the poor little thing was scared to say anything and when she did, her complaints were dismissed.”
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