CANADA • UNNAMED GIRL - 6 yo (2001-2010) - Convicted: Stepfather (with mother's permission) - Ottawa, Canada

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karma wrote:Man sentenced to five years for sexual abuse of stepdaughter
Mother knew, but did nothing to stop husband
April 20, 2011

OTTAWA — A retired OC Transpo bus driver who molested his stepdaughter for nearly a decade, despite the fact the girl’s mother knew and watched some of the sexual abuse occur, was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday.

The mother allowed the sexual abuse to continue so long as her husband didn’t have sexual intercourse with her daughter, who was just six years old when the abuse began.

The mother — who the victim told police “encouraged” the abuse because it made her husband “happy” — was never criminally charged out of respect for the daughter’s wishes.

The 57-year-old man later told police he gave his stepdaughter gifts and money in exchange for the sexual favours in what he claimed was an attempt to show her “everything comes with a price.”

For her 15th birthday, the girl asked her mother if she could stop the sexual abuse.

“There is no doubt the milieu (the victim) was living in was horrible,” said Ontario Court Justice Lise Maisonneuve before sentencing the man, who can’t be named to protect the victim’s identity.

“A child should feel safe in his or her own home and should certainly expect that her mother, her own flesh and blood, would do anything to protect her,” said Maisonneuve, who described the now 16-year-old victim as being “completely alone and defenceless in her own home.”

Court heard as a young child the victim’s parents gave her a sexual “education” on how adults bodies could give them pleasure after she saw them coming out of the shower together.

At six, the girl would have to masturbate her stepfather. In one incident when she was eight, she was sexually touched after climbing into bed with her naked parents following a nightmare.

The abuse continued to escalate with the victim eventually disclosing the abuse in June 2010 to a friend and her mother. The victim was expecting to have to perform a sexual act on her stepfather that day because he had just bought her a digital camera.

In an interview with police, the mother admitted she was present in the house when the two went upstairs and knew what was going to occur. The mother also said that she saw her husband touch her daughter’s breasts four or five times, even though she did not want to see it.

The mother, who could offer no plausible explanation as to why she condoned the abuse, intends to stay with the man, court heard.

A psychiatrist who examined the man found that he identified with statements made by child molesters and claimed the girl enjoyed it when he abused her, Maisonneuve said.

Maisonneuve said the abuse had a profound impact on the girl, who wrote in a victim impact statement about how she felt worthless, contemplated suicide and started burning herself with matches “to try and feel some other kind of pain.”

“I don’t know what life is like without the abuse because as long as I can remember he has abused me,” the girl wrote.

The man, who was given credit for a year already spent in jail, will have four years of his sentence left to serve.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/sentenced+five+years+sexual+abuse+stepdaughter/4650721/story.html

This is unbelievable. What kind of court system does Canada have that they let a pedophile off with 5 years after ruining that poor life? She will be scarred the rest of her life. And her stupid POS mother needs to go to jail for at least 20 years. Why in the world isn't she being prosecuted for child neglect? She knew about it and instead of stopping it, encouraged it. What a bunch of sickos.