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A MARRIED Ipswich man who impregnated his adopted daughter and then buried the remains of the miscarried fetus in his back yard to cover up the incest was jailed for seven and a half years yesterday. Details of the sordid sexual abuse, which occurred over two years, were first told to Ipswich District Court in Queensland on Friday when the man pleaded guilty to four counts of incest and one count of concealing the birth of the 20 to 25 week-old baby. His sentencing was adjourned until yesterday to allow Judge Phil Nase to consider a punishment. The man cannot be named because it could identify his victim. The court was told the girl, who was 15 and 16 at the time of the incest, was sent to live with the man and his family by her Samoan-based father – the man's cousin – to give the girl a better life. The man, now 47, would sneak into her room at night and have sex with her – resulting in the birth of a child, now two, in March 2003 and a second pregnancy which was miscarried in March 2004. The alarm was raised when hospital staff treating the teenager found she had suffered a miscarriage but that the fetus was missing. The court was told the man later confessed to the abuse, telling police he initially buried the baby's remains in his back yard but later dug them up and placed them in a plastic container, which he kept in a freezer to prevent his wife from finding out about the abuse. The baby's remains were delivered to Goodna detectives on March 22 last year. Judge Nase told Brisbane District Court court yesterday that while the man had apparently used no force to have sex with the girl, the incest was aggravated by the large age gap between the pair, the "disparity" of power and the "signficant breach of trust". But he said he had to take into account the man's plea of guilty and his feelings of shame for his actions. He sentenced the man to seven and a half years' jail for each count of incest and 12 months' jail for concealing the second baby's birth. The sentences are to be served concurrently. He also made a recommendation that the man be eligible for parole after serving a third of his sentence. The man, who was supported in court by family members yesterday, was crying as he was led away to the court cells. AAP (3-3-2005) Amanda Watt |
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