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Oct 1, 2009
Man molested daughters <!--10 min-->
He would threaten to beat his eldest child if she told her mother <!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent </td></tr> </tbody></table>
HIS wife knew as far back as 1998 that he was fondling their eldest child, but did nothing about it. She was afraid of him and he had promised to change.<table valign="top" align="left" width="200"><tbody><tr><td class="padr8"> <!-- Vodcast --> <!-- Background Story --> <style type="text/css"> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </style>
Victims want dad out of their lives
A PROSECUTOR told a court yesterday that it was clear the two victims had been seriously traumatised by the accused: their natural father.
Neither of the girls - now aged 22 and 17 - wanted the 49-year-old to be anywhere near them again.
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When she caught him doing it again two years later, he fell at the victim's feet and asked for forgiveness. The girl, then 14, wept. But in May this year when he was caught peeping at his daughter, now 22, bathing, the family decided they had enough of his abuse. They reported him to the police nine days later, on May 21.
The 49-year-old father of three, who suffered from alcohol dependency, pleaded guilty yesterday to eight counts, mainly of aggravated molestation, and one of intruding into a woman's privacy. The man cannot be named in order to protect the identities of his children. His second daughter, who is now 17, was also molested when she was 10. His youngest child is now 15. The abuse, the court heard, went even further back than those incidents.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Navin Thevar said the man began abusing the eldest child when she was 10 and continued until 2001. He and his wife had stopped having sex. From August 1997 to May this year, he had committed 11 offences against his eldest child. He also committed four against his second daughter in 2002 when she was 10. He threatened to beat his eldest child if she told her mother about the incidents.
Oct 1, 2009
Man molested daughters <!--10 min-->
He would threaten to beat his eldest child if she told her mother <!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent </td></tr> </tbody></table>
HIS wife knew as far back as 1998 that he was fondling their eldest child, but did nothing about it. She was afraid of him and he had promised to change.<table valign="top" align="left" width="200"><tbody><tr><td class="padr8"> <!-- Vodcast --> <!-- Background Story --> <style type="text/css"> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </style>
Victims want dad out of their lives
A PROSECUTOR told a court yesterday that it was clear the two victims had been seriously traumatised by the accused: their natural father.
Neither of the girls - now aged 22 and 17 - wanted the 49-year-old to be anywhere near them again.
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When she caught him doing it again two years later, he fell at the victim's feet and asked for forgiveness. The girl, then 14, wept. But in May this year when he was caught peeping at his daughter, now 22, bathing, the family decided they had enough of his abuse. They reported him to the police nine days later, on May 21.
The 49-year-old father of three, who suffered from alcohol dependency, pleaded guilty yesterday to eight counts, mainly of aggravated molestation, and one of intruding into a woman's privacy. The man cannot be named in order to protect the identities of his children. His second daughter, who is now 17, was also molested when she was 10. His youngest child is now 15. The abuse, the court heard, went even further back than those incidents.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Navin Thevar said the man began abusing the eldest child when she was 10 and continued until 2001. He and his wife had stopped having sex. From August 1997 to May this year, he had committed 11 offences against his eldest child. He also committed four against his second daughter in 2002 when she was 10. He threatened to beat his eldest child if she told her mother about the incidents.
