Dad jailed for "daily rape" of teenage daughter (Manila, Phillipines)

Note that the mother was forced to leave the children with UNNAMED DAD so she could earn an income outside the country. Internationally, many mothers are separated from their children because of what charitably might be called "uneven" economic development (rich people in rich countries exploiting poor people in poor countries). Once children are separated from their moms by international labor migration, they are much more vulnerable to abuse and neglect of all types. Though this particular daddy is just beyond the pale....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314806/Father-jailed-14-400-years-daily-rape-teenage-daughter.html

Rickshaw driver jailed for 14,400 years for 'daily rape' of teenage daughter
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:37 AM on 24th September 2010

A Philippine court today sentenced a father to 14,400 years in prison after he was convicted of the near daily rape of his teenage daughter over the course of a year.

A trial court originally condemned the man, a rickshaw driver, to die in March 2006, four years after he was formally charged with 360 counts of rape - allegedly carried out during the year his wife worked in Hong Kong.

But the Court of Appeals in Manila commuted the sentence to 40 years for each count, according to a court decision seen today.

The defendant can still appeal to the Supreme Court, although it was not clear if he would.

The then-13-year-old victim, now 22, said her ordeal began in January 2001, when her mother left for work in Hong Kong as a domestic helper and left her three children with their father in Los Banos, a township just south of Manila.

The ordeal only ended after she and her siblings spent a holiday with their mother's relatives.

Reluctant to return to her father at the end of the holiday, she broke down and told her family about the abuse. Her mother returned home from Hong Kong and helped her file the case.

The appeals court affirmed the lower court's dismissal of the defence's contention that the man's wife made up the allegations to get custody of the children and marry a foreigner.