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Man gets 14 year jail term for raping stepdaughter

July 26, 2018 7:03 pm

“This is probably one of the worst cases of sexual violence on a child that has come before the courts in Fiji.”

This was the statement made by Labasa High Court Judge Justice Daniel Goundar while sentencing the man who raped his step-daughter and then sewed up her genital.

The man has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.

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The incident occurred in 2013 and 2018 in the Northern Division.

He has a non-parole period of 12 years.