Dad raped me for 4 years but mum took him back and says God wants me to forgive hi- Becky Herbert

Little Becky Herbert ­suffered four years of almost nightly rape by her ­paedophile father as she clung in terror to her teddy bear. But she told the Sunday People her devoutly Christian mum Mandy Manning has taken him back – and has urged her to forgive the monster. read more after the cut...

Horrified Becky, now 20, believes a hardline evangelical church persuaded Mandy to rekindle her relationship with twisted David Manning.

Manning, who also claims to be a Christian, repeatedly crept into her room to molest her – groping her from the age of nine and turning to rape when she turned 11.

Traumatised Becky said she tried to hang herself when she was 15.

Her dad was jailed for nine years after his crimes came to light.

But Manning, 47, was freed after serving half of his sentence and has been spotted back at the family home.

Mandy, also 47, allegedly believes God wants both her and Becky to forgive him.

Officials gave Manning’s return the green light ­despite two of Becky’s siblings still living at home.

Becky, of Plymouth, Devon, said: “I love my mum but she’s told me that the past is the past and the Bible says I should forgive those who have sinned against me.

“I can never forgive the man who did this to me – never. He ­completely destroyed me.

"I still wake in the night, shaking and drenched in sweat.

"I’m not sure I can bear to have a baby since he showed me the evil an innocent child can suffer.”