A 50 YEAR OLD MAN ACCUSED OF RAPING HIS 15 YEAR OL

A 50 YEAR OLD MAN ACCUSED OF RAPING HIS 15 YEAR OLD

STEPDAUGHTER AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTING HER SINCE SHE WAS SEVEN WAS

JAILED FOR EIGHT YEARS ON THURSDAY.

DURING THE TRIAL AT ISLEWORTH CROWN COURT THE YOUNGSTER

REVEALED THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW IF HER STEPFATHER OR BOYFRIEND WAS THE

FATHER OF HER SIX MONTH OLD BABY.

AND SHE TOLD THE COURT HOW HER STEPFATHER HAD REGULARLY HAD

SEX WITH HER FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.

SENTENCING THE MAN, WHO CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED, JUDGE SUZANNE

NORWOOD SAID: ‘THIS IS A MOST APPALLING STORY OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF A

YOUNG GIRL TO WHOM YOU HAD DUTIES AS A FATHER.

‘RAPE IS ALWAYS A SERIOUS MATTER AND ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO

PERMANENT INJURY TO HER, YOU KNEW SHE DID NOT WANT IT AND WAS

PROTESTING’.

THE COURT HEARD THAT ABOUT THE TIME SHE BE CAME PREGNANT IN

JUNE LAST YEAR HER STEP-FATHER TOLD HER TO GO UPSTAIRS AND TIDY HER

ROOM.

‘I DIDN’T WANT TO GO UPSTAIRS BECAUSE I KNEW WHAT WOULD
HAPPEN,’ SHE SAID.

‘I WAS STRUGGLING BUT HE PUSHED ME UPSTAIRS.

I

SAID ”DON’T HURT ME, LEAVE ME ALONE”.

I WAS KICKING MY LEGS AND

MOVING MY ARMS IN A FRIGHTENED SORT OF WAY.

‘HE JUST GRABBED HOLD OF MY WRISTS AND FORCED ME BACK ON THE

BED’.

THE GIRL, NOW IN THE CARE OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW,

SAID HER STEP-FATHER FIRST HAD SEX WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS SEVEN, AND
THE FAMILY WERE LIVING IN FELTHAM.

‘IT HAPPENED QUITE OFTEN,’ SHE SAID.

BUT IN JANUARY LAST YEAR SHE FOUND A BOYFRIEND, SAID MR

PHILIP GAISFORD, PROSECUTING.

ON ONE OCCASION THE BOY, WHO LIVED WITH THE FAMILY, WOKE TO

SEE THE MAN ‘ON TOP OF HIS STEP-DAUGHTER UNDER A SHEET ON THE BED’,

SAID COUNSEL.

THE MOTHER FACED THE STEP-FATHER WITH THE GIRL’S

ALLEGATIONS.

THE DEFENDANT, 50, FROM HESTON, DENIES RAPING THE GIRL

AND TWO ‘SPECIMEN’ CHARGES OF INDECENTLY ASSAULTING HER SINCE OCTOBER

1977.

ENDS