A foster dad impregnated a teenage girl in his care while his wife slept in the same bed.
The 58-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, has been jailed for six years and
eight months after she spoke out about the years of abuse.
The court heard that the man – who the ‘vulnerable’ victim called ‘dad’ – treated her as his ‘sex slave’.
He admitted regularly supplying her with cannabis and conceiving two children with the victim, who was aged between 16 and 18 during the relationship.
Reading an emotional statement in court, the victim spoke of how the abuse impacted her life.
I feel contaminated as if I’m damaged goods. At the time I was extremely vulnerable.
He was supposed to care for me and help me with my problems, not make them worse.
I feel a real sense of anger about what happened as if he destroyed my future and took my teenage years away.
She moved into the defendant’s house in Leicester under a fostering agreement, and he was paid £45 a week to care for her.
Months later, while his wife was sedated on medication, the man gave the teenager cannabis and they had unprotected sex next to his sleeping wife.
The court heard he apologised, but the relationship continued after a few months.
He would touch her intimately while the family watched television and, after he and his wife split up, they conceived a second child.
Both children were taken away from her.
Sentencing him at Leicester Crown Court, Judge Simon Hammond said: ‘This is about as bad a case of sex with a child family member as you can get.
‘She was forbidden fruit and he used her for his own sexual gratification.
‘The legacy of this sort of sexual abuse is devastating.’
