Woman will try to ‘fix’ daughter broken by abuse
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A Christchurch woman says she will try to “fix” her daughter who was raped and sexually abused by the girl’s father when she was aged five.
Christchurch District Court Judge Raoul Neave told the 32-year-old father he had caused “incalculable harm” to the daughter, when he jailed him for 13-and-a-half years.
The non-parole term imposed means the man will have to serve six years before being considered for release.
The man had admitted the charges of sexual violations, rapes, and indecent assaults. They were laid as representative charges, which means the offences happened at least once.
The man has final name suppression to protect the identity of the child.
The mother of the child read the court a victim impact report, which described the trauma of rape kit testing done on a young girl.
She said her daughter would never be the same, and she was sickened by what the man did, and the thought of the physical pain the girl would have felt. “You broke her, I will try to fix her,” the woman said.
Crown prosecutor Claire Boshier said eight charges of breach of protection orders were also for sentence, involving a different victim.
She said the man was self-serving and lacked empathy, and was assessed as a high risk of reoffending. The child would have devastating life-long consequences.
Defence counsel Steve Hembrow said the breaches of a protection order showed a desire to contact and rekindle a relationship.
The man had a serious problem with alcohol, and was drinking to gross excessiveness.
Judge Raoul Neave said the summary of facts was grim reading, and the child suffered sustained genital injuries, which were found after she went home from spending the weekend with him.
Police found photographs of the child wearing adult clothes, and her father bought her a bra when she was five.
The little girl said her father told her not to tell anyone what had happened. She told him she didn’t like it but he wouldn’t stop and would do it again.
Judge Neave said the man created opportunities for the offending to occur, and he had done incalculable harm to her.
The psychiatrist report said that she was “an angry, unhappy little girl”, he said.
The woman who was granted the protection order was constantly pestered and psychologically tormented, he said.
The man’s own interests were allowed to rule, and no-one else’s opinions accounted for anything. He was a manipulative and controlling person, Judge Neave said.
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