Child Forced To Have Sex With Mother: The Shockingly Brutal Details
A 12 year-old only child from Waterford, UK was initially brought into court eight days ago to testify against his father after his mother was forced — at least, allegedly — to have sex with her son. Since then, the child has told the court more and more about his family history, and what he has revealed has been unspeakable.
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The child initially alleged that his father’s sexual abuse had begun when the son was six years old and continued until the child was moved into foster care at age 12, reports The Irish Times. The father’s methods of sexual torture had been very harsh and had included sexual abuse with a hot poker and anal rape in addition to forced incest. He had even filmed some of the acts and showed them to visitors when they came over to the house, the child said.
The child also testified that his dad had held a gun to his son’s head on multiple occasions and had sometimes forced the child to enter a box, which his father then locked.
As if the allegations made at the child’s initial hearing were not bad enough, though, yesterday is where things really started to heat up.
First, the mother’s role in her allegedly forced sexual relations with her child were called into question. Although the child had initially told the court that the forced sex had been entirely his dad’s idea and that he had told the mother she would “have to go live on the streets” if she did not go through with it, the father’s lawyer told the court that the child had since told him that the mother had been willing and eager to have sex with her boy and had told him that she would murder him if he did not submit to it. In response to the lawyer’s claims, however, the child argued he had never said that and that his mom had only had sex with him “because she didn’t want to go homeless.”
The child added that he loved his mom and had missed her a lot since being forced to leave her for foster care four years ago.
The Independent reports that the mother’s lawyer then asked the child to go into m?re detail about his father’s gun collection, which had been mentioned earlier in the trial, to which the child replied that his dad kept “50 guns and 50 bullets.” His firearms included an AK-47, a Berretta “like you would see in Dr. No in James Bond,” “a gun you can put a silencer on,” “a sniper,” a rocket launcher, and an Uzi submachine gun, which was the one the child had pressed against his head by his father.
All of what the child had told the court in the past eight days was thrown into question, though, when his father’s lawyer asked him another question: had he been persuaded to testify against his dad by his foster mother offering to buy him a toy, treat, or other reward for every time the child testified against his father? The boy said he couldn’t remember, which the defense took to mean “yes.” Why his foster mother would do such a thing is unknown.
We will undoubtedly learn more information about the case and the fates of all those involved when the trial resumes on Monday in front of a judge and jury. If the child really was forced to do what he says he was and put though everything else he claims, you can bet on more than a few years of forced servitude for his parents.
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