Boy needed specialist care for sexualised behaviour

A young boy who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother left his second foster home because his foster mother felt he needed more specialist care for his sexualised behaviour.

“We knew he had to go somewhere to get extensive therapy where he could get the help he needed so he could have some chance of a future,” the woman said. She was giving evidence on day 12 of the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

She and her husband did not want the child to leave nor did he want to leave them but she said they all realised it was necessary.