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Dad who raped daughters given 40-year term at Swansea Crown Court | |
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A man who fathered at least six children with his own daughter has been handed a 40-year extended life sentence. | A man who fathered at least six children with his own daughter has been handed a 40-year extended life sentence. |
The man from south west Wales was found guilty of repeatedly raping two of his daughters and one of the girls they subsequently gave birth to. | |
The man, who cannot be named to protect his victims' identity, showed no emotion as he was sentenced. | The man, who cannot be named to protect his victims' identity, showed no emotion as he was sentenced. |
Judge Paul Thomas QC told him: "Your behaviour was totally evil." | |
He jailed the man for 33 years with a further seven years to be served on extended licence. He will not be eligible for release for 22 years. | |
During the trial, the court was told the defendant "groomed" his two daughters, and a daughter subsequently born as a result, into having sex with him by acting as a "psychic" who sent them emails telling them what to do. | |
The man also organised the rape of one daughter by his friend, as he watched. | |
DNA tests showed he had fathered at least six of his own daughter's children, one of whom he went on to abuse. | |
He claimed it was the girls who were blackmailing him and the sex was consensual because he did not know they were his own children. | |
'Depths of depravity' | |
Judge Thomas had previously said it was among the worst cases he had been involved with. | |
He told the man: "What you did to your family over a period of around 20 years plumbed the depths of depravity. | |
"You have left your victims, your daughters, with their lives in pieces. | |
"You raped them countless times, well into the hundreds. | |
"You took advantage of their extreme vulnerability caused by their age and circumstances and abused them cynically, mercilessly, evilly. | |
"In short, you are as cowardly as you are wicked." | |
Hayley Fackrell from the Crown Prosecution Service said: "These sickening acts of abuse were carried out by a person that was supposed to protect and care for the victims, but instead he systematically controlled their lives, grooming them for his sexual gratification." | |
The extended sentence means the man will be eligible for recall to prison, should he be released, until he is 100 years old. |