By FRAN WETZEL
A GIRL of 12 secretly filmed herself being raped by her stepdad – who was jailed for nine years today.
The vile 70-year-old assaulted the girl 17 times over nearly four years.
A court heard how he treated her like a slave and even threatened to murder her.
He was finally caught after she hid a video camera in her room and taped the abuse.
The Greek-born man – named only as Georgios A – denied rape, forcing the girl to give lengthy testimony in court.
It emerged she had been hiding notes about her ordeal in her schoolbooks – with one reading “I can’t live like this anymore”.
But her stepdad, of Cologne, Germany, claimed she seduced HIM, adding: “She must have put something in my drink, I don’t remember.”
He was arrested in June after the schoolgirl, now 13 and living in care, showed the footage to a teacher.
The court in Cologne was told that she asked her godfather for the camera after he refused to believe her. He told her: “He is an old man, I just don’t believe it.”
The girl’s mum, who initially fled the country after her husband’s arrest in June, also denied knowing anything about the abuse.
The woman, 34 – who has three other kids – told the court she panicked following years of “verbal and physical abuse” from the man.
She said: “I’m so ashamed of myself. I panicked. But the child never told me anything.”
The woman, who said she has mental health problems, also claimed her husband kept her sedated by force-feeding her medication. She added: “I felt like I was under anaesthetics."
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