“He sought comfort and grossly abused his fatherly role,” the judge said about the 54-year-old man from Borger, who abused his daughter for two years. The man was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for this.
The sentence is lower than the requirement of four years in prison. The man was acquitted of raping his then partner. There was insufficient evidence to support the report. The daughter was abused from 2013 to 2017. The girl was 11 years old when the fornication began. Her parents had just divorced.
To comfort her father, the child crawled into bed with him several times. She thought her father’s behavior was normal. Only years later did it become clear to her that her father had abused her. She filed a report in 2022. The judge finds that the suspect only had an eye for his own feelings of pleasure.
Moreover, he takes responsibility to a limited extent. He has “seriously betrayed” the trust his daughter had in him, the judge said. It is well known that sexual abuse in young children can have long lasting effects on the development of the victim. The judge takes into account that the man suffers from a personality disorder.
In addition to the prison sentence, the man must undergo treatment. He has also been banned from contact with his daughter.