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A boy has revealed how his father forced him to watch porn when he was seven years old, before the man led him upstairs when he was eight, and demanded he have sex with his mother.

The boy, now 14, said he did not realise the sexual encounters with his mother were wrong until four years later when a stunned foster parent told him she would not force him to have sex with her.

'I basically enjoyed it,' the boy said, as he testified in the trial of his parents, Robert Caravella and Carol Ann Hann, who were found guilty in Luzerne County Court in Pennsylvania on Friday.

His abuse was discovered on August 19, 2010, when police visited their Plymouth home after child services received a report that a youngster was living in 'deplorable' conditions.

On Friday, a jury convicted Hann of rape of a child, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and incest. She will be sentenced in February.

It convicted Caravella of conspiracy to commit rape of a child, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and distributing explicit sexual material to minors.
 
In April, he was also convicted on 13 charges for sexually abusing two girls between 2002 and 2005, and sentencing for all convictions will commence in January.

The teenager testified on Thursday that, around his seventh birthday, his father called him over to the computer and told him to watch a video, the Times Tribune reported.

It showed naked men and women having sex, he said, and the videos, which he watched three times a week, were allegedly used to train him for having sex with his mother when he turned eight.

On the boy's eighth birthday, Caravella, now 53, allegedly led his son to his mother's bedroom and told him to have sex with her. 'He had been building me up to it,' the boy said.

After that alleged incident, he was soon having sex with Hann, now 45, as many as four times a week. She would initiate it by taking off her clothes and 'I'd follow', he said.

He added that his father would even coach him on his performance during their pornography sessions, using the films to show him how to improve his technique, the boy claimed.

At first he hid the sexual abuse from authorities because he did not want to get his parents in trouble, he told the court.

'I felt protective over my parents,' the boy said. 'I loved them.'

Both parties had denied the charges and said family members conspired against them.

Hann said she was a 'good Christian woman' and said she had suffered a tailbone injury from a car accident in 2007 that made it impossible for her to have sex.

After he was found, the boy said he only bathed once a month, only brushed his teeth once a year before going to the dentist, and would walk around naked as he didn't know he had to dress.

He was home schooled yet his parents hardly ever gave him classes, and he did not know how to eat with a knife and fork, so ate with his hands, police said.

Police said there was overwhelming stench of cat and human urine odor, along with fecal matter, inside the home but the boy said he 'got used to it'.

'It was, I can't put this nicely, a piece of crap,' the boy, who has not been identified, said of his home.

His treatment made him so mad that he would take Hann's cats and kill them, investigators said. In total, he suffocated 37 cats by putting them in a closet and throwing things of top of them.

A few days later, he would take them out and play with them, and they would be buried in the yard, the Times Leader reported.

'I chose the cats because they were [Hann's] favourite,' he said. 'She angered me so I would do something as revenge.'

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