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A court on the Dodecanese island of Kos has jailed a 56-year-old man from Rhodes to ten years\u2019 imprisonment after finding him guilty of multiple counts raping his daughter and committing incest.<\/p>\n
As a result of the rape and incest, the daughter, now aged 31, gave birth to a child three-and-a-half years ago.<\/p>\n
She told the court that the rapes started when she was 16, after her parents had divorced and she was then living at her grandmother\u2019s house with her father.<\/p>\n
Her father raped her daily for at least 12 years, mostly when he was under the influence of drugs, she told the court.<\/p>\n
The rapes stopped, she said, when she became pregnant with her second child, who is now three-and-a-half years old.<\/p>\n
A DNA test on the child revealed that her biological father was the father of the child.<\/p>\n
The case emerged when the woman revealed the abuse to a friend, who encouraged her to report her father to the authorities.<\/p>\n
In his defense, the father claimed that he had a consensual sexual relationship with his daughter for a few months, but that they both stopped when they released what they were doing was wrong.<\/p>\n
Although the abuse commenced in 2010, the statute of limitations meant that the father was only prosecuted for criminal acts committed from February 2021 to January 2022.<\/p>\n
Notably, the court also prosecuted the daughter on a charge of incest, sentencing her to a two-year prison sentence suspended for three years.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n