Rapist dad gets sentenced reduced; daughter was impregnated at age 12 during his overnight visitation (Newborough, Australia)

Typical coddling of a pedophile, particularly a father pedophile. Lucky this girl had an abortion. Otherwise this sh** of a father would be suing for custody of or visitation with the baby.

UNNAMED DAD

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/sentence-reduced-for-father-of-five-who-raped-girl-12-20130828-2spu6.html

Sentence reduced for father of five who raped girl, 12

Date August 28, 2013 - 1:37PM

Mark Russell

A father of five who repeatedly sexually abused the daughter of his former defacto partner and got her pregnant when she was 12 years old has had his jail term reduced.

The man, now aged 64, was jailed for 11 years with a non-parole period of seven years and nine months after being found guilty by a County Court jury of one charge of committing an indecent act with a child under 16, nine charges of sexual penetration of a child under 16, one charge of attempted sexual penetration of a child under 16, and one charge of making a threat to kill.

The Court of Appeal’s Justices Peter Buchanan, Marcia Neave and Phillip Priest found a conviction on one of the charges was unsafe and should be quashed, so the man was re-sentenced to 10 years and 10 months jail with a non-parole period of seven years.

Justice Buchanan said in his decision handed down on Wednesday that the man’s relationship with his victim’s mother ended in 1997 and he moved into a flat in Newborough, and later into a house in Traralgon.

The young girl frequently visited the man at the flat and the house and stayed overnight with him.

She gave evidence at the man’s trial that she was sexually assaulted by the man on a regular basis when she stayed with him.

In December 1998, when the girl was 10, she stayed overnight in the spare room at the Newborough flat when the man woke her by putting his hand over her mouth.

‘‘He held one hand to her chest and told her to keep quiet,’’ Justice Buchanan said.

‘‘He opened a condom with his mouth and said, ‘This is so you won’t get pregnant’.’’

The man then had sex with the young girl and told her if she ever told anyone, he would kill her.

On December 31, 1999, the girl and her brother stayed overnight at the Newborough flat.

The girl got out of bed to watch the fireworks. When the fireworks finished, she saw the man standing in the doorway. He said something like, ‘‘Why don’t you come in. I was waiting for you’’ before he took her hand and led her back to her room and had sex with her.

In December 2000, the girl stayed overnight at the flat and the man again had sex with her but the condom slipped off.

The man later asked the girl on a regular basis whether she had her period before he obtained a pregnancy test kit which tested positive.

In early 2001, when the girl was about six weeks pregnant, the man had sex with her without wearing a condom.

He told the girl ‘‘the only good thing about her being pregnant was that he did not have to wear a condom’’, Justice Buchanan said.

The man took the girl to a doctor in Newborough to discuss the pregnancy.

He then told the girl’s mother that he was going to take the girl to Brisbane to find a new home for the family.

Instead, the man took the girl to his sister’s house in New South Wales where they stayed for about a week.

On February 20, 2001, when the girl was 12 years old, she had an abortion.

In January 2003 the girl moved to Brisbane with her mother and her siblings.

She went to the police on February 2, 2005.

In October 2005, the girl was at a police station in Queensland when she made a recorded phone call to the man telling him her counsellor had advised her to speak to him about what had happened in Victoria.

The man apologised and told her she was not to blame herself for what happened.

He could not explain why he had acted as he did except that he ‘‘might have been lonely’’.