Mum 'who couldn't have any more kids let lover rape daughter, 14, to get her pregnant

The victim's mother – who cannot be named for legal reasons – did nothing to stop her partner sexually assaulting the youngster in his downstairs "den" during the 1970s, Reading Crown Court was told.

She allegedly insisted her daughter continued having sex with him to maintain the family's "peaceful life".

Prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson said: "She remembers another occasion as her step-father was in the bedroom having sex with her when her mother was calling out to the defendant and saying 'what are you doing with her? You should be in bed with me' which suggested to her that her mother knew what was going on."

The stepfather, now 75, first molested the girl when she was 10 years old on the drive home from a KFC fast food restaurant on the Slough Trading Estate, the prosecution claim.

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TRIAL: The KFC on the Slough Trading Estate where victim was allegedly attacked

“It was only a matter of time before she would become pregnant”

Mr Ward-Jackson

He would also sneak into her room and rape her while her sister was sleeping in the next bed, Reading Crown Court heard.

Reading Crown Court heard how the pair could have hatched a plan to deliberately get the teen pregnant as the mother had a hysterectomy and could have no more children.

Mr Ward-Jackson added: "It was only a matter of time before she would become pregnant. Evidence may suggest that was part of his plan.

"Because she was so young she did not realise at first she was in fact pregnant. It was only when she was five months pregnant it became obvious to her and her family.

"Evidence may suggest the defendant and her mother hatched a plan to cover up the truth which involved persuading the complainant to participate in a fiction to say she was impregnated by a boy she met at a party."

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TRIAL: The alleged sex crimes took place during the 1970s

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REVEALED: The mum allegedly did not stop her partner attacking her daughter

The victim told the cops during an interview she eventually managed to negotiate with her stepfather to reduce the abuse to once a week.

When the 75-year-old was arrested and questioned by cops two years ago, he insisted he was not the boy's father.

The defendant denies seven counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted rape of a child.

The trial continues