A man was sentenced to jail after he took advantage of his daughter while his wife was not around.
On Monday (Aug. 8), the accused was sentenced to 24 years in prison and the statutory maximum of 24 cane strokes.
A gag order has been issued to protect the identity of his daughter, therefore the father and his biological daughter cannot be named.
Background
According to CNA, the father began his crime on his daughter in May 2019 and continued for many months.
The victim kept quiet every time his father did it to her by pretending to be asleep and after committing it on several different occasions he was finally caught.
His wife entered the daughter’s room and saw that the accused was not wearing any clothes on the lower half of his body.
The wife hit him and the noise woke up his other daughter who was asleep in the same room.
After the incident came to light, the victim revealed that she did not want to report her father’s assault as the family depended on him and needed his father to pay for his mother’s cancer treatment.
The family then made arrangements for the daughters to sleep in the same room as their brother.
The assault did not stop
Even after moving the daughters to their brother’s room, the assault did not stop.
While the mother was away in the hospital, the father tried to do it again but he was alarmed after his son sneezed.
The victim informed her mother about the incident and the mother had to take action against her husband, the incident was eventually reported to the Police and the mother applied a personal protection order to protect her children.
The mother later died from an illness.