My biological father dressed me in a wedding gown and raped me

An adopted woman who tracked down her real father when she was 13 has told how he dressed her in a wedding gown and went on to rape her. Then, when Marion fell pregnant with her biological dad John, he attempted to perform a home abortion on her. But the home operation failed, and she went onto have the abortion in hospital.

She later had another child with him - a boy who has since been taken into care - but it was this pregnancy which prompted her to leave. Marion, now 26, told how she was excited to trace her long-lost father and turned up on his doorstep. But within weeks he was raping and abusing her, calling her “Daddy’s special girl”. He dressed her in a wedding gown and said he wanted them to be married.

He even forced a ring onto her finger.

Marion, who has since had three daughters, Mitchell, six, Rose, four and Marie, two, said: “I’ll never get over what my dad did. “He ruined my childhood.” She struggled to cope as a teen when her mother told her she had been adopted. “My world crumbled,” she said. “I couldn’t take it in. I was so angry. “I felt like my whole life had been a lie.” When Marion learned her biological mother had died she decided to pay a visit to her biological father, leaving her adopted parents. She arrived at his home in October 2001.

“When I arrived, a man with grey hair answered the door and asked me if he could help,” she said. “I told him I was his daughter and though he looked shocked, he pulled me in for a hug. “He said he had been waiting for the moment he got to meet me.” She spent the evening with her father chatting about their lives, and he asked her to move in with him. “With those words I felt like I belonged and I settled down in to dad’s spare room," she said. But while she was keen to develop a father-daughter bond, John had other ideas.

Marion said: “One day while I was reading a magazine dad started to run his fingers though my hair. “Then he said, ‘You’re gorgeous, I can’t believe you’re my daughter.’ “It made me feel uneasy.” But I was desperate for dad to love me, so I told myself I was just being silly.” But his odd behavior continued, and after they had been living together for two months, he suggested playing the game which the sick sex pest called 'Mummies and Daddies'.

Marion said: “I thought it was strange being that I was almost 14, but I didn’t want to annoy my dad.” John then handed her a wedding dress and told he to put it on. Marion said: “I put it on and played along with him.” Her father then asked her to pose on the bed so he could take some photos of her wearing the gown.

She said: “It felt wrong but what could I do? “Later that night she heard her bedroom door creak. “Dad said, ‘I’ll sleep here tonight so I can be with my gorgeous daughter, but he started touching me.“I told him to stop it and tried to pull away but he ignored me and carried on touching me.”Before long John was visiting his daughter’s room every night to molest her.

Names have been changed for identity protection purposes.