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Rapist jailed for 14 years

March 29, 2012 1:01 am

A Savusavu man has been sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment after being found guilty of fourteen counts of rape.

The victim his 17 year old daughter was raped between December 2010 until the end of October 2011.

Judge Justice Paul Madigan says she was robbed of her youth and of a father at the same time.

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His behaviour was so serious and so threatening that the girl lived in fear of him.

Even his approaches to her at her boarding school alarmed the teachers so much that they sought guidance from the Police and from the Ministry of Education, all without knowing the true cause of the threat.

The man must serve a minimum sentence of 14 years.