Father from Townsville forced his own young son to rape his little daughter – now he learns his fate

A man who raped his newborn daughter and then forced his young son to do the same to her has been sentenced to life in prison.

The North Queensland man, who cannot be named to protect the children’s identities, pleaded guilty to 87 charges in the Townsville District Court this week and showed no emotion when sentencing was announced on Tuesday.

Prosecutor Monique Sheppard said he deserved the maximum sentence for his “horrific” crimes.

The Townsville man’s victims included his biological daughter, whom he sexually abused when she was one week old.

He also filmed the insults and spread them on the Internet, the court said.

Police raided his property in 2020 after receiving a tip-off from a woman to whom he had sent disturbing text messages, the Cairns Post reported.

The search revealed Children’s underwear and images from videos in which he rapes his little daughter.

“The offence against her was indeed so serious, so heinous, so deliberate and so appalling that a conviction of the maximum penalty is justified,” Ms Sheppard said.

The man was accused Rape, indecent treatment of a child of direct descent under 12 years of age, zoophilia, production, provision and possession of child exploitation items, burglary and drug trafficking.

The prosecutor told the court that during their search, police found photographs documenting eleven instances in which the man sexually abused his brown daughter until she was twenty months old.

The court was told that the images showed the man raping his daughter with his fingers, his penis and other objects.

In one of the videos, the abuse was apparently seen in the changing room of a toilet in a shopping center.

The full extent of the man’s crimes is unknown because he refused to tell police where he stored the videos.

In her victim statement, the girl’s mother explained in court that her daughter returned from unsupervised visits to her father “restless, crying and with redness in her intimate area.”

“L came home from these unsupervised visits upset and crying, with red marks on her private parts, crying in pain. She said daddy had touched her (on her genitals) and pointed at them when I changed her diaper,” she said.

“Communication, trust, honor, honesty, loyalty, respect and family were all words that had very important meaning in my life, destroyed by a father’s animalistic lust for his own daughter.”

The woman learned she had met the man online and began seeking legal advice after she became pregnant, having previously discovered he had strange fetishes that made her fear for her daughter’s safety.

The man’s family signed an order agreeing to monitor all visits between him and his daughter.

But after hiring a private investigator, the baby’s mother was able to prove that the meetings had not been monitored, as the visits were immediately stopped.

She told the court that since the abuse, her little daughter has suffered from nightmares, talks about suicidal thoughts and is unable to Show affection to other family members.

The man had another son, who was a week younger than his daughter, and the rape his stepsister, which his father would film.

In another case uncovered by the public prosecutor’s office, another woman had reported the man because he had asked her to have a sexual relationship with his son.

The woman had sexual relations with the man for a short time before he asked her to “come over to have ‘fun’ with his son,” Ms Sheppard said.

Before this relationship, the man had another relationship with a woman to whom he gave methamphetamine for sex.

The woman had a 17-month-old daughter and prosecutors said she sometimes woke up to find the man in her apartment.

At one point, the man filmed himself sexually abusing the unconscious woman before turning his attention to the child, who was also sleeping, Ms Sheppard said.

Further police investigations revealed Two other young girls were filmed and sexually abused or tricked into sexual acts by the man.

He refused to help identify the two girls when the authorities questioned him. It later turned out that they were the The court learned that he had sold marijuana to a woman who had been his daughter.

Ms Sheppard said the man shared images and details of his abuse with others via the messaging app Kik, where he once told someone that he Having sexual intercourse with a child “as young as possible, one day old, one week old, as soon as possible”.

In his verdict, Judge Gregory Lynham said described the man as a “paedophile” who used mothers to gain access to their children and shared images of the subsequent abuse with others “who had not asked for such material”.

Defence lawyer Claire Grant told the court that her client had no criminal history and had been “completely abandoned” by his family and friends when the charges became public.

His rejection by society was “perhaps not surprising given the severity of his behaviour,” Ms Grant said, “but at the end of the day he is still human.”

As a child, the man was a “social outcast” at school and at home, where he often argued with his father.

The court was told that the man had a history Drug addiction and struggled with mental health problems most of his life.

Ms Grant claimed that these factors meant the man had no memory of his crime and that his early guilty plea showed remorse.

Ms Grant had proposed a 20-year prison sentence, but Judge Lynham rejected that request when handing down the sentence on Tuesday.

Judge Lynham rejected the allegation that the man had shown remorse because he had refused to help the police with their investigation and had even gone so far as to lie to them.

“It is suggested that your drug addiction affected your memory, but I reject that. Other evidence showed that you were fully aware of your behaviour,” Judge Lynham said.

“Your crime cannot be deduced from your own confessions, but can only be described as a reprehensible breach of trust based on the images found.”

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