Monday, July 18, 2011

Dad gets 12 years for sexually abusing children (Rugby, England, United Kingdom)

Of course it's an UNNAMED DAD....

http://www.therugbyobserver.co.uk/story-Sick-father-gets-12-years'-jail-for-abusing-own--47459.html

Sick father gets 12 years' jail for abusing own children
18 July. Updated: 18 July 09:40

A SICK father who blindfolded and sexually abused his children - moving from one to another as they got older - has been jailed for 12 years.

A judge at Leamington Justice Centre told the Rugby man, who we are forbidden from naming, that anyone hearing of his offences ‘cannot have anything other than a feeling of revulsion.’

The man, in his mid 30s, had pleaded guilty to four charges of rape, four of indecent assault, one of sexual assault and one of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Jailing him, Judge Trevor Faber ordered him to register as a sex offender for life and made him subject to a sexual offences prevention order banning him, among other things, from having unsupervised contact with children.

Prosecutor Adrian Keeling said the man had abused his children for around a decade while, as their father, he was in ‘a position of profound trust.’
“The offences are characterised by the very young ages of his victims. He would abuse them and then stop and wait for the next child to achieve that age," Mr Keeling said.

"He did it for no reason other than for his own sexual gratification."
The perverted offences came to light when one of the girls gave their mother a note saying her brother did not want his dad to bathe him because he was worried he would abuse him.

When her mother questioned her, the girl went on to reveal her father had abused her, so the police were called and all the children were interviewed.

The other two girls also talked of how they were blindfolded and abused aged eight.

Mr Keeling told the court the children's mother said in a statement: “I was absolutely devastated to find out what had been happening to them. All my children have been extremely damaged by this.

"The one person who was meant to love and cherish us all has torn our lives apart.”

Sarah Buckingham, defending, conceded: “The most important piece of mitigation has to be his pleas of guilty.

"It has spared his children having to appear in court. It is an acceptance of the quite awful things he has done.

“He finds it difficult to face up to the abhorrent acts he subjected his children to. He accepts he has had a very warped way of thinking and that there must be a fundamental flaw in his character which needs to be addressed.”

Judge Faber told the defendant: “Your offending involved a campaign of sexual abuse of your children. It involved the grossest possible breaches of trust by a father of his own children.”