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Australian couple sentenced for sexually abusing 15-yr-old daughter

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7 years ago

October 29, 2016

Australian couple sentenced for sexually abusing 15-yr-old daughter

An Australian couple both bagged lengthy jail terms for s*xually abusing, torturing and confining their daughter for over a period of 15 years.

Both parents (who cannot be identified), a 59-year-old father, was sentenced to 48 years in prison, while the mother, 51, was sentenced to 16 years in prison and must serve at least 11 years.

It was revealed that the District Court in Sydney was told that the father used various sharp tools to rape and torture the girl who was left tied up in a shed or in a plastic box for up to three days at a time on the family’s rural property in northern New South Wales.

The father according to reports began abusing the girl when she was 5 years old and the mother began teaching her daughter how to sexually arouse her father from the age of 8.

The father was convicted of 73 offenses and his wife of 13 offenses in June. They denied all charges.

Judge Sarah Huggett described the crimes as “atrocious in the extreme.” She also described the father as “selfish, depraved and sadistic.”

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