A Melbourne mother assisted her adult nephew in the rape of her
12-year-old daughter, which was succeeded by three years of sexual
abuse, the County Court of Victoria heard on Wednesday.
In 2011, when the girl was 12, the nephew began touching the woman’s
daughter while the two adults were having sex, and the child was raped
shortly after, the court heard. None of the parties can be named for
legal reasons.
Although her daughter was crying and telling her cousin to stop, the
mother held her down so that she could better see what was going on,
according to reports by an Australian website news.com.au.
Stephen Lindner, the mother’s lawyer, described the attack as a
“gross violation of the relationship between a mother and her daughter”.
The mother, now 55, pleaded guilty to sexual penetration of a child and an indecent act with a child.
Her nephew allegedly continued to sexually abuse his cousin, without
the involvement of the mother, for the next three years. He pleaded
guilty to persistent sexual abuse of a child under 16.
The abuse stopped following the man’s arrest in 2014, after the girl told her older siblings about the rapes.
Both the mother and her nephew were bailed, but the mother has been
remanded in custody since March after reportedly breaking her bail
conditions and attempting to contact her daughter.
The nephew’s lawyer, Ashley Halphen, said that he had expressed
remorse in a letter to the daughter, but Judge Clare Quin was not
convinced.
“Reading the whole tenor of it, I don’t see it,” Judge Quin said.
The court was adjourned until Friday.
source: http://www.independent.co.uk
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