36 years' jail, 24 strokes for raping daughter
36 years' jail, 24 strokes for raping daughter
by Shaffiq Alkhatib
05:55 AM Apr 30, 2010
<!--replace --> <script type="text/javascript"> var fontIndex = 2; // var fontSize = new Array("0.63em", "0.69em", "0.75em", "0.88em", "1em", "1.13em"); var fontSize = new Array('0.63em', '0.69em', '0.75em', '0.88em', '1em', '1.13em'); </script> SINGAPORE - He was jailed six years for molesting his daughter, but it taught him nothing.
Soon after his release, he began raping her and last September, she gave birth to a girl.
Yesterday, the 43-year-old odd-job labourer was sentenced to 36 years' jail and given 24 strokes of the cane for raping his biological daughter.
The girl, now 17, was first molested by her father in 1998 when she was six.
He was convicted of three molest charges and sentenced to six years' jail and given 12 strokes of the cane.
Soon after his release in 2002, he attacked her again. He first raped his daughter when she was 14 in their flat in 2007.
He raped her again on two more occasions in December 2008 and on June 22 last year. The girl found out she was pregnant the next day and told her father.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Ramu Miyapan told Justice Woo Bih Li the man was shocked when he heard about it.
The father told the girl that if she were to report it to the police, she was to lie and say he had sex with her only once when he was drunk. He then sexually abused her again.
The girl told her mother about the attacks when the man left home for work that night. The mother told the girl and her brother to pack their belongings before fleeing the flat.
The girl lodged a police report the next day and officers arrested the father that evening.
Mr Miyapan said the man was a "menacing beast" who had to be put "out of circulation" to protect his daughter as he was "beyond redemption".
Justice Woo agreed, calling the man an "incorrigible monster".