Schoolgirl, 13, feared her boyfriend’s DAD was the father of her unborn child after he raped and sexually abused her for months
Paige Marvin, now 19, was forced to keep sick Wesley Cooper's dirty secret as he told her she was a 'little w***e' who no one would believe
A BRAVE teenager has told how she feared her boyfriend's DAD was the father of her unborn child after he repeatedly raped her for months.
Paige Marvin, now 19, was just 13 years old when evil Wesley Cooper, from Oldbury, preyed on his own son's childhood romance.
She was forced to keep his sickening secret as Cooper told her no one would believe her as she was a "little w***e".
Thankfully he turned out not to be the father of Paige's baby, and eventually, in July last year, Cooper admitted the vile sex attacks after a failed suicide bid.
He was jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
Paige, from Birmingham, told how she met Cooper's son Mark while playing out with friends.
The pair became close and were always round each other's houses with Cooper taking them out on his boat at weekends.
They shared their first kiss when they were 13 - and shortly after Cooper pounced.
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Paige told how he would send Mark off to the shops before lunging at her on the couch.
She recalled: "He said 'Now you're going out with my boy, I'm going to teach you how to have sex.'
"Then he pulled me down on the floor and forced himself inside me - I was a virgin, and I cried tears of fear and pain.
"When Mark came back Wesley acted as if nothing had happened.
"After that whenever we happened to be alone together, he took his chances to abuse me."
Paige said Cooper told her he wasn't "jealous" of his son because he knew he could have her "any time he wanted".
She explained: "He'd often send Mark to the shops so he could abuse me. Other times when Mark went to the loo or to his bedroom to get something he would put his hand on my leg or run it up under my school skirt and touch my knickers.
"I was scared rigid because I could see him getting excited and I was terrified what would come next.
"One day he took me out on his boat, Mark was nowhere around, and he took his chance.
"He pushed me down and held my legs apart as he raped me.
"I felt like I was going to be sick with that old man writhing on top of me but I couldn't even bring myself to make a sound, I was so petrified.
"Afterwards I felt like the world was going to end. I couldn't tell Mark what had happened in case he thought I had betrayed him."
Desperate to feel safe, Paige sought comfort in Mark.
One night, when they were alone, the two had sex.
It was Mark's first time and Paige pretended it was hers too.
She said: "How could I tell him his own dad had taken my virginity?
"I wanted to tell someone, but Wesley told me I was a little w***e and no one would believe me. And I believed him."
A month later Paige realised her period was late and she was pregnant.
"It sent me into complete panic and fear," she said.
"I was only a child myself. How could I be a mother?"
At first Paige kept it to herself saying she'd put on weight if anyone noticed her swelling tummy.
When she couldn't hide it any longer she told Mark.
"He automatically assumed the baby was his and thought he would be in trouble," she recalled.
"But for his dad it was the perfect situation. No one would suspect it was his if I was sleeping with his son."
When Paige's mum found out she became suspicious and demanded they went to the police.
Paige said: "I thought everyone was going to blame me but I knew I had to tell the truth.
"I confessed I'd had sex with Mark to get rid of the image of his dad raping me repeatedly and that I had no idea if the abuser was my baby's dad or his granddad.
"Wesley was arrested but he walked away from it as there was not enough evidence, and of course, he denied it."
Paige described the day she gave birth as the "best day of her life".
Eight weeks later a DNA test proved Mark was the dad but he couldn't handle the pressure of what had happened and the couple split.
Paige admitted: "Somehow the fact that my son wasn't the product of rape but of a loving relationship meant a lot to me, even after that relationship broke down."
Last year Wesley tried to shoot himself and handed himself into the police, confessing everything.
He pleaded guilty to six charges of sexual activity with a minor, was sent to prison and put on the sex offenders register for life.
"There have been times I was so depressed that I self-harmed and shaved my hair off," Paige admitted.
"I even struggled to bond with my baby boy. But he's what's kept me going - he saved me.
"Now I want all young girls to know that no matter what you consent to, there is never ever an excuse for a man to do anything you don't consent to."
*Mark is a false name given to protect his identity.
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