A 61-year-old man was convicted of two molestation charges on 6 January, after molesting his daughter who was then about 5 or 6 years old in 2009 (she is now 18-years-old).
The identities of the parties involved cannot be named due to a gag order protecting the identity of the victim.
What happened?
Sometime in 2009, the girl was eating in the living room of the family home when her father called her into a bedroom, her mother wasn’t home at the time.
The man was wearing only a towel around his waist and sitting down at his table, using his computer.
he then asked the victim to sit on his right thigh and he then grabbed her left hand and put it on his private parts.
The prosecutors said that the girl let him do whatever he wanted to do because he is her father, and that the girl recalled feeling scared because she didn’t know what he was doing.
The father then touched the girl’s private parts before she left the room and when her mother returned home later, the girl didn’t tell her about what happened because her father told her not to.
No evidence
The truth finally came to light about a month later and the girl’s mother told her never to let anyone touch her there again, and she asked her why she didn’t tell her about the incident earlier.
The mother told the girl that there was no hard, concrete evidence so there was “no point” in making a police report.
The father was then confronted by the mother about the incident, but the girl didn’t say anything because she didn’t want to get involved in their argument.
The victim’s parents later divorced and the man then moved out.
Grew to dislike and fear boys
The girl watched a YouTube video about assault when she was an upper primary student and realised that her father had committed a wrongdoing, but she didn’t know what to do and didn’t make a police report.
The girl also started having panic attacks in school some time in 2018 whenever there are a lot of boys and she grew to dislike being around boys.
She later revealed to a school counsellor about her father’s actions when she asked her about the triggers for her attacks.
The man is expected to begin his mitigation and face sentencing in February.