A YOUNG mother, who gave birth to a child by her evil raping dad, is being paid £160,000 damages by Bradford Council after it admitted a breach of duty by failing to remove her from the family home.

The woman claimed social services failed to protect her from her father, who she said raped her more than 1,000 times from the age of ten during seven years of abuse.

He was jailed for 19 years at Bradford Crown Court in 2012 after he was convicted by a jury of eight sample charges of rape and two of child cruelty relating to his two daughters.

The court heard he fathered three children by them, and would hit them with a leather belt, a slipper, and a cricket bat - offering them the choice of being hurt or having sex with him.

The judge described him as a "cruel, violent, controlling, manipulative" sexual offender who had shown little, if any, remorse for the harm he had caused.

He had been guilty of the "brutal and sustained" abuse of the girls over a significant period of time and had degraded his daughters, using rape as a punishment.

The woman, now 25, who has won damages from the Council, said: "I love my son, but it's so hard to bond with him properly. Every time I look at him I see my dad.

"It makes parenting him harder. I wouldn't change his being here, but I am totally torn by my feelings. I just wish he had another father."

The abuse began in 1999, when she was ten. Within days she was being assaulted three times a week while her mother was out at work.

After three years she told her mother, but she did not believe her. The following year she stopped a police community support officer on the street and spilled out her terrible secret.

She was placed under a protection order, and went to live at a children's home. Her father was charged with rape, but he was found not guilty and returned to the family home.

Within weeks she was allowed to move back there and her father made her apologise in front of the family.

"He made me say I had made up wicked lies. I did it because I was scared," she said.

She became pregnant by her father and had an abortion, but 12 days later she was taken off the child protection register.

Five weeks later she told a social worker her father was abusing her again, but the worker reported no further investigation could take place because he had been found not guilty.

In five months, social workers visited the family home eight times, but failed to take the girl out of the house. Her case was then closed.

The woman, whose identity is protected by law, said: "I couldn't believe they'd closed my case. I felt let down again and totally trapped."

She fell pregnant by her father a year later but convinced herself the baby was her boyfriend's. DNA revealed the real parent four years later after police began investigating.

She said: "When my boy was born I cradled him and saw our life together as a fresh start. But Dad has poisoned that too."

She said she was happy about the payout, but there was no celebration. "It was never about the money."

Julie Jenkins, Bradford Council's assistant director of children's specialist services, said: "The Council is aware of this young woman's circumstances and she has accepted damages of £160,000."