Shaun Knight has hit out at the sentence handed to Georgina Woodburn (Picture: Triangle News)

A babysitter has walked free after a man she abused for six years as a child tracked her down on Facebook and confronted her.

Georgina Woodburn was meant to be looking after Shaun Knight when she abused him between the ages of four and 10.

She made him perform sex acts while looking after him at his childhood home in Newport, Isle of Wight.

Last year Shaun, now 35, spotted her on Facebook and started talking to her before extracting a confession.

He confronted her, telling her: ‘You should of never touched (me) and made (me) eat your fishy f***y and do sexual sick things.’

Shaun Knight was abused by Woodburn for six years (Picture: Triangle News)

She offered him £100 a month for life to try and buy his silence, but he told her she should hand herself in to police.

Eventually Woodburn, 42, was convicted but only received a community order and was put on the sex offenders register for 10 years.

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He got enough evidence for Hampshire Police to arrest Woodburn, 42, and get her convicted, although now she has been spared jail.

He said: ‘It took me about a year of talking to her on and off. She was giving excuses and saying she didn’t remember a lot, and she was basically just palming me off.’

Eventually, he just asked her saying: ‘How come you made me do sexual things to you?’

Woodburn was given a community order and put on the sex offenders’ register (Picture: Triangle News)

Woodburn, who was aged between 11 and 17 as she abused him, responded: ‘I am very sorry to you, didn’t mean anything and I mean that 100 per cent.’

The abuse only stopped when Shaun’s family left the Isle of Wight.

Shaun said: ‘She was apologetic, and she just kept reeling off everything I needed for evidence.’

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Speaking about her sentence he said: ‘When I heard she wasn’t going to prison I felt sick.

‘She abused me for six years until she was 17 years old, how has she got this sentence? I just want my life back from when I was three years old and start again, but I can’t.’

Shaun says the abuse he suffered made him turn to drugs, homelessness and eating from bins.

Shaun says he still gets flashbacks to what happened (Picture: Triangle News)

But then he started to rebuild his life by joining 29 Army Commando who he served with for 14 years in Iraq, the Falkland Islands, Senegal and Belize.

Despite what he had witnessed as a soldier he said he re-ran the assaults almost every day of his life.

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He said: ‘I thought about her all the time, about how she had got away with it.’

After seeing her on Facebook he said: ‘It felt like I was four years old again. When I saw her I was like “that’s her, the honey monster”. It was a surreal feeling, you feel like your life has been drained out of you.’