Rapist forced his eight-year-old stepdaughter to wear her mother’s lingerie …
April 20, 2015 by admin
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The brave victim of her child rapist stepfather who forced her to dress up in her mother’s lingerie when she was only eight years old has bravely spoken out about her years of abuse.
Kim Hill has waived her right to anonymity and spoken about how she was assaulted by Derek Osborne from the age of four, more than 20 years on from the campaign of abuse.
Kim, now 31 and from Suffolk, bottled up the painful memories for years before her husband Rob helped her open up about what happened to her.
While planning their wedding, Rob asked her if she had been abused as a child due to her withdrawn nature.
His question prompted his then-fiancée to confess what happened to her.
The mother-of-two said: “I’d waited my whole life to hear that question. I was desperate for someone to bring it up, so I could tell them the truth.
“When Rob asked me it was my chance to share the painful secret I’d been hiding – that the man I had called dad had abused me.”
She told Rob how vile Osborne made her climb into bed with him and kiss and cuddle him, and even forced her to watch pornographic films.
He attacked her two days after her 12th birthday, while taking her out for a celebratory meal.
Speaking about the abuse, Kim, who married Rob in 2013, said: “I didn’t know any different so I accepted what he was doing as normal. I saw him as my dad.
“I just thought my dad loved me very much.”
Kim’s father died when she was young and she was aged three when Osborne began a relationship with her mother.
She said: “I scrambled for mum’s attention with my three siblings.
“But I was always Derek’s favourite. He’d come and tuck me into bed while Mum watched television downstairs.”
But the attention soon turned sexual.
She said: “He would kiss me on the lips. He often called me into his bed at night for a cuddle, so he could touch me under the covers. I was too young to know how wrong it was.
“I thought nothing of it. But years went by and the touching became more intimate.”
Aged seven, Mrs Hill was taught sex education at school, which made her worry she was carrying her abuser’s baby.
She said: “I found out at school how babies are made. I was horrified, all I could think was, ‘What if I have a baby growing inside me?’
“I knew how upset mum would be if she found out and I’d get into so much trouble.”
Kim was too scared to talk about what she was going through and the abuse continued.
“When I was nine, he forced me to dress up in mum’s underwear, then he made me watch sick porn films.,” she said.
“I didn’t know any different so I accepted it as normal.”
But that all changed when, aged 10, Kim saw a television programme about sexual abuse.
She said: “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I realised my dad was abusing me.
“Next time he tried to touch me I was in tears and pushed him away.
“Although he was angry, I stood my ground.” “Part of me wanted to tell mum, but I didn’t want to hurt her.”
But weeks later, her mother sat her down.
“She told me that her and my stepdad were splitting up,” Kim said.
“Finally, I could escape him.”
But Kim mother wanted to keep Osborne around as a father figure and for Kim’s 12th birthday, he took her out for a celebratory dinner. But he pounced when they were alone at his house afterwards and performed a sex act on her.
She said: “My feet were kicking as hard as I could but I wasn’t strong enough to push him away.
“A look of anger spread across his face as he tried to hold me down. After, I felt disgusting.
“That was the last time he abused me. Afterwards he moved away with a new partner.”
But years on, Kim was still living with the effects of the abuse.
She said: “I’d become so withdrawn, and jumped whenever anyone brushed past and touched me.”
Although Kim met a man aged 18 and had a daughter at 23, the relationship did not work out.
She found it difficult to trust and stayed away from the dating scene until a friend set her up with Rob.
She said: “I wasn’t sure and it was the first proper date I’d had since having my little girl.
“He talked about his sister, who’s also a single mum and how difficult she’s found it.
“From the very beginning, Rob was so understanding.”
Kim and her daughter moved in with Rob after six months and just weeks later, in August 2010, he proposed.
The couple had a son in January 2012 and started planning the big day.
She said: “Me and Rob shared everything, but I still didn’t dare tell him what dad had done.
“We’d started making plans and wanted the perfect venue.”
While searching for wedding venues, Rob asked her if she had been abused as a child.
Kim was overwhelmed with relief.
“I broke down in tears,” she said.
“I didn’t know how he could guess. He said that I was different to other women because I was withdrawn. He encouraged me to tell mum what had happened. And with his support the next day I called the police. I was the first victim to come forward but soon other victims spoke out and said Derek had abused them too.”
When he was arrested, Osborne denied all the offences and even claimed one of the girls had made sexual advances towards him.
With the trial looming, in September 2013 Kim and Rob tied the knot.
She said: “I didn’t think of Derek once. He might have destroyed my childhood, but he wasn’t going to ruin the best day of my life.”
After confiding in her fiancé, Rob encouraged her to report Osborne to the police and she made her statement the following day.
In May 2014, Osborne, then 72, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court where he admitted 16 counts dating from 1982 and 2004, including eight of indecent assault and seven of indecency with a child, related to Kim and two other schoolgirls. He also admitted raping another woman.
He was jailed for 21 years. In October 2014 one count of gross indecency with a child, not relating to Kim, was quashed at the Court of Appeal in London, but his sentence remained the same.
Kim said: “I went to see him sentenced. He was so pathetic and frail, he was unrecognisable.”
Judge John Holt said Osborne’s victims had all suffered “devastating” psychological effects. He said a probation officer who interviewed Osborne had assessed him as “dangerous” and said he had shown “very little” genuine remorse.
Now he is behind bars, Kim has finally been able to begin moving on.
She said: “I’ve started counselling and healing sessions with the Happiness Foundation.
“They’re helping me to accept it and move on.
“Rob is there with me every step of the way and I know he’s so proud. I’ve also started a blog about everything I’ve been through.
“I’ve had so many victims of sexual abuse thank me for telling my story and showing you can put your abuser behind bars – even years later.”
