Dad DONALD TACKETT was mad that his 3-year-old daughter was playing with his wallet. Well, duh. When 3-year-olds find things, they play with them. Why did you leave it out where she could find it, dumb @$$? Is there a mother in this home? No mention of one.
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT
http://www.wowktv.com/story/16597021/donald-tackett-accused-of-whipping-3-year-old-across-face-with-belt
Donald Tackett accused of whipping 3-year-old across face with belt
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 8:51 AM CST
Updated: Jan 25, 2012 8:51 AM CST
A Ravenswood father was arrested Monday and charged with whipping his 3-year-old daughter across the face with a belt.
Donald Tackett, 35, was charged with felony child abuse, police said. He was taken to the South Central Regional Jail where he was held on $75,000 bond.
Police said Tackett became upset with his daughter for playing with his wallet. In a rage, he hit the girl with a leather belt, leaving marks and bruises.
Ravenswood Police arrived at Tackett's home at about 10 p.m. Monday
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Dad filmed kids in bathroom with hidden camera (Melbourne, Australia)
Of course Mr. Perv is an UNNAMED DAD. No indication here as to whether Mr. Perv was married, divorced, or whether there was any adult female in this home at all, especially a mother.
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/father-filmed-children-on-hidden-camera/story-e6frfku0-1226253581379?sv=2e602903e74c9c195987d714d192e6b
Father filmed children on hidden camera
January 25, 2012 3:59PM
A MAN who hid a video camera in his family's bathroom captured images of his children and their friends showering and dressing, a court has heard.
The Victorian County Court was told police executed a search warrant in October 2010 at the man's Melbourne home and found 198 films depicting the children getting in and out of the shower, changing into school uniforms and other activities.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, recorded the incidents between 2003 and 2010, Prosecutor Susan Borg told the hearing.
The victims were aged between 12 and 16 when the offending took place, she said.
Australian Federal Police originally charged the man with accessing and possessing child pornography and he served a three-month sentence last year.
However additional charges were laid when investigating police realised the videos had been captured in his own home, the court heard.
A second search warrant was executed in May last year and the full extent of the man's offending was uncovered.
Prosecutor Susan Borg called for the man to be jailed for a maximum of four to six years with a minimum of two to four years.
The man's barrister George Georgiou called for his client to be spared jail and sentenced to a community corrections order so he could continue to be the full-time carer for his seriously ill wife.
The father of two has pleaded guilty to seven charges of making child pornography, four counts of indecent acts with a child under 16 and installing an optical surveillance device.
He will be sentenced before Judge Christopher O'Neill on February 9.
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/father-filmed-children-on-hidden-camera/story-e6frfku0-1226253581379?sv=2e602903e74c9c195987d714d192e6b
Father filmed children on hidden camera
January 25, 2012 3:59PM
A MAN who hid a video camera in his family's bathroom captured images of his children and their friends showering and dressing, a court has heard.
The Victorian County Court was told police executed a search warrant in October 2010 at the man's Melbourne home and found 198 films depicting the children getting in and out of the shower, changing into school uniforms and other activities.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, recorded the incidents between 2003 and 2010, Prosecutor Susan Borg told the hearing.
The victims were aged between 12 and 16 when the offending took place, she said.
Australian Federal Police originally charged the man with accessing and possessing child pornography and he served a three-month sentence last year.
However additional charges were laid when investigating police realised the videos had been captured in his own home, the court heard.
A second search warrant was executed in May last year and the full extent of the man's offending was uncovered.
Prosecutor Susan Borg called for the man to be jailed for a maximum of four to six years with a minimum of two to four years.
The man's barrister George Georgiou called for his client to be spared jail and sentenced to a community corrections order so he could continue to be the full-time carer for his seriously ill wife.
The father of two has pleaded guilty to seven charges of making child pornography, four counts of indecent acts with a child under 16 and installing an optical surveillance device.
He will be sentenced before Judge Christopher O'Neill on February 9.
Dad pleads guilty to sexually abusing son, daughter, other kids; also child porn, bestiality (Edmonton, Canada)
Of course it's an UNNAMED DAD. Notice that the sexual abuse of the son and and daughter took place after the divorce from their mother, meaning it took place during Daddy's custody/visitation (i.e. "parenting") time. Unfortunately, even if these children had chosen to tell the mother, it's unlikely the authorities would have believed her. No doubt she would have been labeled a vindictive liar out to alienate her children from their wonderful father. In fact, if you check out the daughter's testimony, it seems this Daddy was very slick and manipulative. The kind who ALWAYS fools the evaluators into thinking he's a wide-eyed innocent who's being unfairly accused.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Father+pleads+guilty+incest+abuse+minors/6047476/story.html
Father pleads guilty to incest, sex abuse of minors
Long list of charges includes child pornography, bestiality
By Ryan Cormier, Edmonton Journal January 25, 2012 3:10 AM
An Edmonton-area man has pleaded guilty to more than a decade of sexual abuse of minors, including his son and daughter.
The 41-year-old, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims, entered guilty pleas to 27 of the 40 charges against him, including charges of sexual touching, child pornography, unlawful confinement, incest and bestiality.
He pleaded not guilty to 13 others, including 10 charges of sexual assault. He is scheduled to face trial on those charges on March 12. Only after that trial will he be sentenced.
The man's victims included his son, his daughter, the daughter of a girlfriend and two daughters of a fiancée. Four of five victims were minors at the time of the abuse.
The crimes stretch from 1999 until 2010, according to an agreed statement of facts heard by the court.
The man's daughter told police of sexual abuse that started when she was six years old, though she didn't recognize it as abuse until she was 11. Her father never became violent with her, the now 18-year-old told investigators.
"He talked nicely and softly to her and kept telling her that he loved her," court heard.
When the girl was 11, her father ordered her and her 10-year-old brother to have sex. Her father had sexual intercourse with her. There were numerous instances of abuse in the following years.
It took several hours to read the man crime's into the court record. He entered his pleas in a soft voice and had to be told to speak up.
The man's son, now 17, said his parents divorced when he was young. Growing up, his father often asked him to participate in sexual activity with himself and women. The teen declined.
The father told both his children that he was teaching them about sex "for later in life."
The siblings were afraid to tell anyone of their father's crimes and both attempted suicide as a direct result of the abuse.
From 2003 to 2008, the man was in a relationship with a woman who had a young daughter. When they were alone, the accused sexually touched the girl and forced her to touch him. She once woke up to him abusing her. More recently, the man abused two daughters of a woman he was engaged to in 2009 and 2010.
The mother once allegedly held her daughter down while the accused had sex with her. The mother will face a criminal trial later this year. The man also brought a friend to their home to have sexual activity with the girl. That man now faces charges.
On April 30, 2010, the man and his fiancée argued and she left the home with her youngest daughter.
Police were contacted within the week. They searched the man's home and seized note-books, photos, CDs, a computer and data storage devices. Officers with the Integrated Child Sexual Exploitation Unit found 10,455 images and 8,355 videos of child pornography.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Father+pleads+guilty+incest+abuse+minors/6047476/story.html
Father pleads guilty to incest, sex abuse of minors
Long list of charges includes child pornography, bestiality
By Ryan Cormier, Edmonton Journal January 25, 2012 3:10 AM
An Edmonton-area man has pleaded guilty to more than a decade of sexual abuse of minors, including his son and daughter.
The 41-year-old, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims, entered guilty pleas to 27 of the 40 charges against him, including charges of sexual touching, child pornography, unlawful confinement, incest and bestiality.
He pleaded not guilty to 13 others, including 10 charges of sexual assault. He is scheduled to face trial on those charges on March 12. Only after that trial will he be sentenced.
The man's victims included his son, his daughter, the daughter of a girlfriend and two daughters of a fiancée. Four of five victims were minors at the time of the abuse.
The crimes stretch from 1999 until 2010, according to an agreed statement of facts heard by the court.
The man's daughter told police of sexual abuse that started when she was six years old, though she didn't recognize it as abuse until she was 11. Her father never became violent with her, the now 18-year-old told investigators.
"He talked nicely and softly to her and kept telling her that he loved her," court heard.
When the girl was 11, her father ordered her and her 10-year-old brother to have sex. Her father had sexual intercourse with her. There were numerous instances of abuse in the following years.
It took several hours to read the man crime's into the court record. He entered his pleas in a soft voice and had to be told to speak up.
The man's son, now 17, said his parents divorced when he was young. Growing up, his father often asked him to participate in sexual activity with himself and women. The teen declined.
The father told both his children that he was teaching them about sex "for later in life."
The siblings were afraid to tell anyone of their father's crimes and both attempted suicide as a direct result of the abuse.
From 2003 to 2008, the man was in a relationship with a woman who had a young daughter. When they were alone, the accused sexually touched the girl and forced her to touch him. She once woke up to him abusing her. More recently, the man abused two daughters of a woman he was engaged to in 2009 and 2010.
The mother once allegedly held her daughter down while the accused had sex with her. The mother will face a criminal trial later this year. The man also brought a friend to their home to have sexual activity with the girl. That man now faces charges.
On April 30, 2010, the man and his fiancée argued and she left the home with her youngest daughter.
Police were contacted within the week. They searched the man's home and seized note-books, photos, CDs, a computer and data storage devices. Officers with the Integrated Child Sexual Exploitation Unit found 10,455 images and 8,355 videos of child pornography.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dead girl's custodial dad wants his murder charges dismissed; gal pal got 27 years (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
The media messed up this headline and this story royally. The girl's "mom" didn't get 27 years. The mother lives in New Jersey and lost custody when she was not informed of the court dates. Dad HANIF SIMMS managed to get and retain custody despite ongoing child abuse investigations and a weapons warrant. Then he was allowed to move to Colorado where he was reported for still more child abuse, which was also more or less ignored. See our previous posts on this case.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/30286642/detail.html
Dead Girl's Dad Wants His Charges Dismissed; Mom Got 27 Years
Body Of Genesis Sims Found In Basement Of Monument Home
Deb Stanley, 7NEWS Producer
POSTED: 8:51 am MST January 24, 2012
UPDATED: 9:52 am MST January 24, 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Defense attorneys for a father accused of murder want the charges dropped, but a judge is refusing.
The body of Genesis Sims was found by contractors working on a home in Monument in 2010.
Her father, Hanif Sims, is charged with first-degree murder. His girlfriend, Monique Lynch, pleaded guilty to child abuse causing death and was sentenced to 27 years.
Lynch had been charged with first-degree murder, but that was dropped after she agreed to testify against Sims.
Lynch told detectives that Sims grabbed his daughter by the throat and punched her in the chest, causing her to collapse. When his attempts to revive her failed, Sims allegedly told his girlfriend he wanted to dissolve the body in the tub with acid but changed his mind after learning he would need a special license to get the type of acid he needed, according to a detective's testimony.
Sims' trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 30.
However, Sims' attorney now wants the first-degree murder charges dropped, saying that a tape recording proved that detectives misrepresented what Sims said in a jailhouse confession, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.
But the judge said dismissing the case because of improper police behavior would be too extreme and wouldn’t serve the interests of justice, the newspaper reported.
In an interview in July 2010, Sims and Lynch told KRDO-TV that they buried their 9-year-old daughter in the basement crawl space of a Monument home, saying they found her dead in the shower.
Lynch said they couldn't find a pulse and the girl had turned blue.
"My husband tried to give her mouth to mouth ... but she was blue," Lynch said.
"We don't know what the hell happened to her. I didn't kill her," Sims said.
They said they laid the girl's body on a bed in the master bedroom.
"We just sat there and stared at her for at least two days," Lynch said, describing their state as "just totally unbelievable shock."
Then the couple decided to bury the girl in the basement.
"We put flowers. We prayed," Lynch said of the basement burial.
When asked why they didn't call 911, Lynch said that is a question both struggle with each day. She admitted it was a "dumbass" mistake, but was worried she would get into trouble for leaving Genesis alone while the couple went next door to a neighbor's home.
When asked about the girl's whereabouts, after she hadn't been seen for some time, the couple told neighbors Genesis had been sent to live with an aunt back east.
In April 2011, Lynch changed her story and gave investigators at the El Paso County Sheriff's Office an eyewitness account of Genesis' death, which she characterized as part of a long history of child abuse by Sims.
Sims' attorney, Matthew Werner, said in court that Lynch's statements since her arrest have been riddled with "wonderful inconsistencies."
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/30286642/detail.html
Dead Girl's Dad Wants His Charges Dismissed; Mom Got 27 Years
Body Of Genesis Sims Found In Basement Of Monument Home
Deb Stanley, 7NEWS Producer
POSTED: 8:51 am MST January 24, 2012
UPDATED: 9:52 am MST January 24, 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Defense attorneys for a father accused of murder want the charges dropped, but a judge is refusing.
The body of Genesis Sims was found by contractors working on a home in Monument in 2010.
Her father, Hanif Sims, is charged with first-degree murder. His girlfriend, Monique Lynch, pleaded guilty to child abuse causing death and was sentenced to 27 years.
Lynch had been charged with first-degree murder, but that was dropped after she agreed to testify against Sims.
Lynch told detectives that Sims grabbed his daughter by the throat and punched her in the chest, causing her to collapse. When his attempts to revive her failed, Sims allegedly told his girlfriend he wanted to dissolve the body in the tub with acid but changed his mind after learning he would need a special license to get the type of acid he needed, according to a detective's testimony.
Sims' trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 30.
However, Sims' attorney now wants the first-degree murder charges dropped, saying that a tape recording proved that detectives misrepresented what Sims said in a jailhouse confession, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.
But the judge said dismissing the case because of improper police behavior would be too extreme and wouldn’t serve the interests of justice, the newspaper reported.
In an interview in July 2010, Sims and Lynch told KRDO-TV that they buried their 9-year-old daughter in the basement crawl space of a Monument home, saying they found her dead in the shower.
Lynch said they couldn't find a pulse and the girl had turned blue.
"My husband tried to give her mouth to mouth ... but she was blue," Lynch said.
"We don't know what the hell happened to her. I didn't kill her," Sims said.
They said they laid the girl's body on a bed in the master bedroom.
"We just sat there and stared at her for at least two days," Lynch said, describing their state as "just totally unbelievable shock."
Then the couple decided to bury the girl in the basement.
"We put flowers. We prayed," Lynch said of the basement burial.
When asked why they didn't call 911, Lynch said that is a question both struggle with each day. She admitted it was a "dumbass" mistake, but was worried she would get into trouble for leaving Genesis alone while the couple went next door to a neighbor's home.
When asked about the girl's whereabouts, after she hadn't been seen for some time, the couple told neighbors Genesis had been sent to live with an aunt back east.
In April 2011, Lynch changed her story and gave investigators at the El Paso County Sheriff's Office an eyewitness account of Genesis' death, which she characterized as part of a long history of child abuse by Sims.
Sims' attorney, Matthew Werner, said in court that Lynch's statements since her arrest have been riddled with "wonderful inconsistencies."
Authorities botch abuse investigation involving "solo" dad for three years, even though dad had long criminal history (New Zealand)
I swear. It doesn't matter if you're in New York or New Zealand. These so-called child protection professionals are a gaggle of idiots.
Almost three years ago, neighbors started complaining about "solo" dad TROY DUNN and his abusive treatment of his two kids. Daddy did the BS parenting course, but the authorities refused to take the kids away. Meanwhile, Daddy figured out which neighbors had ratted him out, so he started targeting them with his abuse. Big surprise.
Finally Daddy assaulted one son badly enough to perforate his eardrum, and the boy finally told a teacher. THEN the authorities finally got off their collective duff and rescued the kids.
But the authorities are really, really sorry. They "misjudged" dear daddy. But what was there to misjudge? We soon find out that that DADDY ALREADY HAD A VIOLENT CRIMINAL RECORD! What was there to misjudge? It's not like the guy was a choir boy with no track record for this kind of behavior.
Meanwhile, Daddy's doing a whopping 20 months in jail. Big whoop.
So here's the question that's still being ignored: why and how was this criminal a "solo" father? Is the mother deceased? If so, do we know for a fact that her death was from natural causes? Did she "disappear"? Did Daddy get custody through the courts? You have to wonder when a violent dude like this gets custody, as it's more than likely he used violence against the kids' mother in the past.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/horror-child-abuse-continues-years-after-reported-4700623
CYF says sorry over horror child abuse case
Published: 9:02PM Tuesday January 24, 2012
Source: ONE News
Child, Youth and Family has launched an investigation into why it failed to protect two children from abuse by their father for almost three years after it was reported by neighbours.
Troy Dunn was a solo father with two children he was abusive towards, and his neighbours at Arkles Bay on Auckland's North Shore, heard it.
The neighbours, Grant and Merryn, told TV ONE's Close Up they heard Dunn verbally abusing the children, sometimes several days a week, and were sure there would be violence if they did nothing about it.
Merryn said she called CYF because she was scared for the lives of the children.
CYF paid Dunn a visit and put him on a parenting course which he completed.
But Dunn realised his neighbours had dobbed him in and he became abusive towards them.
As a last resort they wrote a detailed letter the chief executive of CYF, which the department can't find in its records.
Grant and Merryn did not hear back from CYF.
Almost three years later, on January 12, Dunn pleaded guilty to assaulting his son and injuring him with intent.
Dunn had thrown his son down the stairs, hit him, kicked him, punched him in the head and perforated his ear drum.
All of this only came to light when the abuse became so bad that he boy told his teachers.
After Close Up's inquiries the head of CYF, has launched an investigation. Bernadine MacKnezie said she is very concerned about some of the decisions that were made, which were "not child centred".
Dunn already had a long criminal history including a number of convictions for violence, but CYF did not remove the children from his care.
The neighbours said the abuse continued for almost three years after they reported it and CYF "let the kids down".
CYF admits it got it wrong
Child, Youth and Family said in a statement to Close Up: "We can understand why these neighbours feel let down by us. We weren't proactive. We made some poor judgments. We misjudged the father."
The department is apologising to the two children it failed to protect.
Despite numerous requests for an interview, CYF refused to front on camera.
Dunn's children survived the abuse. They have been removed from his care and Dunn has been jailed for 20 months.
Almost three years ago, neighbors started complaining about "solo" dad TROY DUNN and his abusive treatment of his two kids. Daddy did the BS parenting course, but the authorities refused to take the kids away. Meanwhile, Daddy figured out which neighbors had ratted him out, so he started targeting them with his abuse. Big surprise.
Finally Daddy assaulted one son badly enough to perforate his eardrum, and the boy finally told a teacher. THEN the authorities finally got off their collective duff and rescued the kids.
But the authorities are really, really sorry. They "misjudged" dear daddy. But what was there to misjudge? We soon find out that that DADDY ALREADY HAD A VIOLENT CRIMINAL RECORD! What was there to misjudge? It's not like the guy was a choir boy with no track record for this kind of behavior.
Meanwhile, Daddy's doing a whopping 20 months in jail. Big whoop.
So here's the question that's still being ignored: why and how was this criminal a "solo" father? Is the mother deceased? If so, do we know for a fact that her death was from natural causes? Did she "disappear"? Did Daddy get custody through the courts? You have to wonder when a violent dude like this gets custody, as it's more than likely he used violence against the kids' mother in the past.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/horror-child-abuse-continues-years-after-reported-4700623
CYF says sorry over horror child abuse case
Published: 9:02PM Tuesday January 24, 2012
Source: ONE News
Child, Youth and Family has launched an investigation into why it failed to protect two children from abuse by their father for almost three years after it was reported by neighbours.
Troy Dunn was a solo father with two children he was abusive towards, and his neighbours at Arkles Bay on Auckland's North Shore, heard it.
The neighbours, Grant and Merryn, told TV ONE's Close Up they heard Dunn verbally abusing the children, sometimes several days a week, and were sure there would be violence if they did nothing about it.
Merryn said she called CYF because she was scared for the lives of the children.
CYF paid Dunn a visit and put him on a parenting course which he completed.
But Dunn realised his neighbours had dobbed him in and he became abusive towards them.
As a last resort they wrote a detailed letter the chief executive of CYF, which the department can't find in its records.
Grant and Merryn did not hear back from CYF.
Almost three years later, on January 12, Dunn pleaded guilty to assaulting his son and injuring him with intent.
Dunn had thrown his son down the stairs, hit him, kicked him, punched him in the head and perforated his ear drum.
All of this only came to light when the abuse became so bad that he boy told his teachers.
After Close Up's inquiries the head of CYF, has launched an investigation. Bernadine MacKnezie said she is very concerned about some of the decisions that were made, which were "not child centred".
Dunn already had a long criminal history including a number of convictions for violence, but CYF did not remove the children from his care.
The neighbours said the abuse continued for almost three years after they reported it and CYF "let the kids down".
CYF admits it got it wrong
Child, Youth and Family said in a statement to Close Up: "We can understand why these neighbours feel let down by us. We weren't proactive. We made some poor judgments. We misjudged the father."
The department is apologising to the two children it failed to protect.
Despite numerous requests for an interview, CYF refused to front on camera.
Dunn's children survived the abuse. They have been removed from his care and Dunn has been jailed for 20 months.
Dad holds 3-year-old daughter hostage for five hours in police standoff; threatened to kill girl, self (Oakland, California)
Not clear if UNNAMED DAD was "armed" per se, but there were guns in the apartment. Reports say he was intoxicated and threatening to kill himself and the 3-year-old girl. Just unending Daddy Drama....
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_19799049
Oakland: Toddler rescued, barricaded suspect surrenders to police
By Harry Harris
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 01/23/2012 06:48:38 AM PST
OAKLAND -- A SWAT team rescued a 3-year-old girl Monday morning from a Fruitvale district apartment, where her father had held her captive for almost five hours, authorities said.
After handing the child to officers through a window about 7 a.m., the father surrendered. No injuries were reported.
The incident began about 2 a.m. on the 2900 block of Capp Street where the man lived with his child and the child's mother. It was not immediately clear if the man was married to the woman.
The man, who may have been intoxicated, got into an argument with the woman, 29, who fled with two other children and called police, authorities said. The man apparently threatened to kill himself and the 3-year-old who remained with him at the house.
The man, 30, refused to let his daughter go. Police said they were told there were guns inside the apartment, which added to their concern.
Patrol officers initially responded to the scene and tried to negotiate with the man to surrender. When it became apparent he would not, SWAT officers were called to the apartment complex about 3 a.m.
As SWAT officers approached the unit where the man and child were, the man saw them from a window. The child was handed to a SWAT officer and moments later the man surrendered.
No one was injured. Some guns were found inside the apartment.
The man was booked on a domestic violence and child endangerment charges, and the little girl was later reunited with her mother.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_19799049
Oakland: Toddler rescued, barricaded suspect surrenders to police
By Harry Harris
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 01/23/2012 06:48:38 AM PST
OAKLAND -- A SWAT team rescued a 3-year-old girl Monday morning from a Fruitvale district apartment, where her father had held her captive for almost five hours, authorities said.
After handing the child to officers through a window about 7 a.m., the father surrendered. No injuries were reported.
The incident began about 2 a.m. on the 2900 block of Capp Street where the man lived with his child and the child's mother. It was not immediately clear if the man was married to the woman.
The man, who may have been intoxicated, got into an argument with the woman, 29, who fled with two other children and called police, authorities said. The man apparently threatened to kill himself and the 3-year-old who remained with him at the house.
The man, 30, refused to let his daughter go. Police said they were told there were guns inside the apartment, which added to their concern.
Patrol officers initially responded to the scene and tried to negotiate with the man to surrender. When it became apparent he would not, SWAT officers were called to the apartment complex about 3 a.m.
As SWAT officers approached the unit where the man and child were, the man saw them from a window. The child was handed to a SWAT officer and moments later the man surrendered.
No one was injured. Some guns were found inside the apartment.
The man was booked on a domestic violence and child endangerment charges, and the little girl was later reunited with her mother.
Court uphold 10-year sentence for rapist dad (Mumbai, India)
Guess dad BHIKU JADHAV is just going to have to do his time for raping his daughter from the age of 8 to the age of 13, when she finally got pregnant. Notice there is mention of a step. So Daddy either had custody or extensive visitation....
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/hc-upholds-10yr-term-for-rapist-father/903197/
HC upholds 10-yr term for rapist father
MAYURA JANWALKAR
Posted: Jan 24, 2012 at 0020 hrs IST
Mumbai Upholding the conviction of a man who raped his daughter since the time she was eight, the Bombay High Court recently observed, “One who could, taking advantage of age of his daughter, molest his own daughter repeatedly does not deserve to be dealt with leniently.”
Finding no fault with the order of the sessions court that handed out a 10-year prison term to Bhiku Jadhav from a village near Panchgani, Justice M L Tahaliyani wrote in his order that Jadhav “is a person of the nature in whose custody even closest of the female relative was not safe.”
The case of the prosecution was that Jadhav had been sexually abusing his daughter since she was eight years old and slept next to him. However, the girl lodged a police complaint in 2006 when she was pregnant after being repeatedly raped by her father.
The girl, at the age of 13, delivered a baby boy. There was a delay in filing the FIR as the victim was 34-weeks pregnant at that time.
The victim, Additional Public Prosecutor P S Hingorani argued, silently suffered at her father’s instance as he had threatened to poison her if she told her mother about the alleged rape.
However, her step-mother brought her to Mumbai and confiding in her, the victim agreed to lodge a police complaint at the Panchgani police station.
Jadhav was booked under section 376 (punishment for rape) and section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
The court observed that it is difficult for anybody to find out the reason for non-disclosure on the part of a sexually abused child. “The psychologists have cited many reasons,” Justice Tahaliyani said. He observed that if the child is raped and threatened by its custodian, a child tends to obey, as psychological studies have indicated.
The non-disclosure by a sexually abused child for long time, by itself cannot be a reason to throw away the evidence of sexual abuse if it is otherwise believable, the court said.
The court felt that the account given by the victim was genuine and supported with evidence and statements of other witnesses that included her step-mother as well.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/hc-upholds-10yr-term-for-rapist-father/903197/
HC upholds 10-yr term for rapist father
MAYURA JANWALKAR
Posted: Jan 24, 2012 at 0020 hrs IST
Mumbai Upholding the conviction of a man who raped his daughter since the time she was eight, the Bombay High Court recently observed, “One who could, taking advantage of age of his daughter, molest his own daughter repeatedly does not deserve to be dealt with leniently.”
Finding no fault with the order of the sessions court that handed out a 10-year prison term to Bhiku Jadhav from a village near Panchgani, Justice M L Tahaliyani wrote in his order that Jadhav “is a person of the nature in whose custody even closest of the female relative was not safe.”
The case of the prosecution was that Jadhav had been sexually abusing his daughter since she was eight years old and slept next to him. However, the girl lodged a police complaint in 2006 when she was pregnant after being repeatedly raped by her father.
The girl, at the age of 13, delivered a baby boy. There was a delay in filing the FIR as the victim was 34-weeks pregnant at that time.
The victim, Additional Public Prosecutor P S Hingorani argued, silently suffered at her father’s instance as he had threatened to poison her if she told her mother about the alleged rape.
However, her step-mother brought her to Mumbai and confiding in her, the victim agreed to lodge a police complaint at the Panchgani police station.
Jadhav was booked under section 376 (punishment for rape) and section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
The court observed that it is difficult for anybody to find out the reason for non-disclosure on the part of a sexually abused child. “The psychologists have cited many reasons,” Justice Tahaliyani said. He observed that if the child is raped and threatened by its custodian, a child tends to obey, as psychological studies have indicated.
The non-disclosure by a sexually abused child for long time, by itself cannot be a reason to throw away the evidence of sexual abuse if it is otherwise believable, the court said.
The court felt that the account given by the victim was genuine and supported with evidence and statements of other witnesses that included her step-mother as well.
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