The step-mother, who now lives in Barnet, Lincolnshire, denied all charges right up until she was sentenced. Judge Maria Lamb was told that the victim, who is now in his 30s, reported the abuse to police in 1998, but his father misled detectives and ensured they didn’t believe his son’s accusations.īut now, decades later, his complaints were heard, police followed up the claims and his father and step-mother will now serve time. When asked by police, the father said that he had wanted to keep his son “on the straight and narrow.” “He was desperate for affection and you wholly exploited that,” said the judge at Reading Crown Court (Wikimedia Commons) They also made the boy watch them have sex, the court was told, all because in their minds, they were making sure he wouldn’t be gay.
During the trial, the court heard how from when the boy was 11, the couple performed various sexual acts on him, including oral sex and touching his genitals, and made him “suck on the step-mother’s nipples.”
