A 58-year-old man in Singapore was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment on Thursday after pleading guilty to 2 counts of rape and one count of assault by penetration.
He had assaulted and raped his intellectually disabled eldest daughter for 3 years, starting in 2017 until his arrest in 2020.
The Straits Times reported that the man’s first assault started in 2017 when he made the victim (then 29) perform oral intercourse on him before raping her, and telling her not to tell her mother.
Then in 2019, he told the victim “let’s have fun” before raping her as she was coming out of the bathroom.
His wife was waiting for her daughter in the corridor on 8 July 2020 after realising that she wasn’t home yet by 11.45pm, and she saw her husband lifting the daughter’s shirt up at the staircase landing.
The man then apologised immediately and released the daughter, asking his wife for forgiveness.
The wife then went to her younger daughter and told her about what happened, and the latter then asked her sister about the incident, and her sister said she encountered their father at the corridor.
She added that he was holding his phone in one hand while lifting her shirt with the other.
The younger sister then took her father’s phone while he was sleeping and found evidence of his crimes, including video(s) of her sister undressing.
The victim then said that their father had entered the bathroom while she was still inside, where he told her to undress while he filmed her.
The victim’s mother and sister then filed a police report and the man was then arrested later that day, on 10 July 2020.