A BRAVE woman has revealed how she was abused from the age of seven by the man she thought was her dad.

It wasn’t until Natasha Fennemore finally told her mum about his depraved assaults, at 22, that she found out her vile rapist WASN’T her biological father.

Natasha, now 24, was abused regularly by her stepdad Steven Green between the ages of seven and 18, and raped from the age of nine.

The monster, now 46, assaulted her in the bedroom of their family home in Derby, while her mum Tracey Green, 48, slept metres away, completely unaware of what her daughter was going through.

When she was nine he raped her – but it took years before she summoned the courage to tell the police.

In January 2013, she told Derbyshire police about the years of abuse she’d suffered.

In April 2016 Green was finally jailed for 23 years, after being found guilty of 23 counts of child abuse, including five rapes.

Now Natasha, who runs a dog-walking business, has waived her right to anonymity and bravely spoken out, to encourage other victims of sexual abuse to come forward.

Natasha told how she was a happy schoolgirl when her stepfather first attacked her and had a loving relationship with Green.

The pair would often team up and play pranks on her mum, who married him when Natasha was two years old.

He also took her to the park and attended all her school parents’ evenings.

But their relationship became sinister when, at the age of seven, he placed a hand on Natasha’s thigh, while they were waiting in their car for her mum.

She said: “I was in the front. I was wearing a white nightgown with strawberries on it and he put his hand on my thigh, above my knee.

“I didn’t think anything of it, but it’s one of my earliest memories.”

Then, while Tracey was at work, Green told her he was going to be her boyfriend, before forcibly kissing her.

She said: “He did a weird French kiss and forced my mouth open. I didn’t understand what it was.

“When he said, ‘I’m going to be your boyfriend,’ I didn’t know what it meant.”

From that moment, Green became more brazen with his abuse.

When Natasha was eight years old, he let himself into her bedroom at night.

She said: “He turned me onto my side, so I was sideways and started touching me in my downstairs area.”

When she was nine, Steven started to orally rape Natasha every day in the middle of the night, while her mother was asleep.

She lived with the abuse for years, scared that her revelation would rip her family apart.

Once she wavered when she was 14 and nearly exposed him.

But, as a result, his abuse increased, leading to her being assaulted sometimes several times a day.

She continued: “Steve was very charming – he thought he was God’s gift, like it was your pleasure that you knew him. Every situation he was in, he manipulated it so he won.”

Natasha said, despite the abuse, she still considered Green to be her “best friend”.

“At first I thought he felt bad about what he was doing,” she added.

“I’ve realised now it was just a ruse, it was an act, so I wouldn’t tell anybody.”

It was only at court she realised what an evil man he truly was and the extent of the lies he told to avoid prison.

“I separated Green into two different people,” she said. “He was my best friend and my dad during the day and he was the abuser at night.

She continued: “I wasn’t scared of him, I was happy to be around him as long as someone else was with me.

“He made it so normal and it happened for so long, I got used to the abuse.

“He was the nicest guy in the world when he wasn’t abusing me. You wouldn’t have known what he truly was.”

Green assaulted Natasha for the final time on her 18th birthday when he was 40, after a day out in Blackpool.

Shortly afterwards, in November 2010, Natasha told her tutor at college about the abuse.

She said: “It just came out, I couldn’t hold it in anymore.

She continued: “I rang my mum and told her about Steven.

“When I came home, she was crying and she said he was packing his bags.

“I asked her to ask him why he did it. He said, ‘It just happened’.”

After the couple broke up, Natasha tried to put the past behind her, but she couldn’t bear the thought of Green being free to abuse other girls.

And in 2013 she found the courage to finally tell the police about Green.

Shortly afterwards, her mum told her Green wasn’t her real dad, after she was advised to by Natasha’s sexual offences liaison officer, as it would be revealed in the court case.

She said: “I was relieved because it wasn’t incest but I was really upset because I realised a complete stranger came into my life and abused me.

“I felt like he used my mum for me in a strange way, we had all been played.”

As she tried to put the past behind her she came out in March 2013 and met her wife, Holly, two months later.

In April 2016 Steven Green was found guilty of 23 counts of child abuse, against three girls.

These included 15 charges against her, including four counts of rape and sexual assault against a child.

He will serve a minimum of two thirds of the sentence but will only be released once the Parole Board believes he is no longer a danger to children.

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He has also been placed on the sex offenders register.

Natasha, who faced Green in court without a curtain to protect her, said: “I had to face him to move on. I didn’t want him to think I was scared of him.

“It felt weird after the trial; it’s been my entire life, since I was seven.

She continued: “I want to write a book about sexual abuse and hear from other victims, it needs to become less of a dirty thing to talk about.

“I had a good relationship with my abuser; people don’t think it could be someone you trust.”

Yesterday, women revealed the heartbreak of bringing up the children of their rapists.

If you have suffered abuse and need someone to talk to please contact The Samaritans.

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