A now 19-year-old woman's near lifetime of sexual abuse at the hands of her father was recounted Tuesday during a sentencing hearing at the Prince George courthouse.
The 36-year-old man, who cannot be named under a court-ordered ban on information that would identify the victims, has pleaded guilty to incest, making or publishing child pornography, possession of child pornography and two counts each of sexual interference of a person under 16 and invitation to sexual touching under 14.
The man was arrested in January 2011 after the woman, then 16 years old, told her school counsellor that her father had abused her for many years. The first incident began when she was of pre-school age and continued on an often daily and twice daily basis, according to an agreed statement of facts that took about an hour to read into court records on Tuesday.
The woman "does not remember a time in her life when she was not engaging in sexual acts with her father," Crown prosecutor Shannon Keyes told the court.
The woman's brother was also sexually abused by the father, and, at one point, forced to have sex with his sister, the court also heard.
A subsequent police search of the family home and the man's computer uncovered videos and photos of child pornography, some involving the woman and the father, as well as stories depicting acts of incest.
Many of the acts occurred while the mother was playing an internet-based computer game, the court heard. As well, while on probation for a separate incident involving a five-year-old niece, the man continued to keep in touch with his family and eventually moved back in with them, continually lying to probation officers over that time, the court heard.
In reading out a victim impact statement, the woman said in part she is now "terrified" to get married and become a mother, particularly of a daughter, due to fears the same things might happen to her children.
The hearing before B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper continues today.
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