Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Stepdad's sex attacks escalated: Victim
By SEAN McKIBBON, Ottawa Sun
An Ottawa man accused of threatening and repeatedly sexually and physically abusing his stepdaughter for years, claimed he had sex with her to give her experience, the alleged victim told court yesterday.
"He would tell me it was to give me experience so I knew what to do when I had a boyfriend," the 18-year-old said. "He said it was normal and that there's a lot of fathers out there that do it."
A court-ordered publication ban prevents identification of the young woman or her stepfather.
Although the stepfather, now 46, at first claimed he would stop having sex with her when she turned 16, he "kept upping it" to 17 and then 18, the girl said Vague on dates, the young woman told the court the abuse began when she reached puberty, with her stepfather coming into her bedroom with a flashlight and looking under her panties.
When she told her mother, her stepfather had an excuse.
"He said I was his daughter too and he was curious and wanted to see how I was maturing," the woman said.
Her mother questioned that response, but the man threatened to beat both of them, the girl said.
The abuse escalated to the point that the man asked the girl to touch him or watch him masturbate.
He raped her, she said, when she was 15, while on a trip to Jamaica to visit the rest of her stepfather's family. She had travelled there with her stepfather ahead of her mother.
Afterward her stepfather began having sex with her two to three times a week, she said, whenever her mother, a waitress who works long hours, was out of the house.
The stepfather, who had a number of secret extramarital affairs, would forbid his wife from going to different parts of the city in order to diminish the chances of her meeting one of his girlfriends.
The alleged victim said her stepfather would compare her body to his girlfriends and called her a "whore" because she wouldn't move when he touched her.
Now here's a real prize of a guy. Does it ever cease to amaze? How thoughtful of him to prepare his stepdaughter for her first boyfriend.
You are the judge,jury and executioner(if need be).What should his punishment be?
http://www.fyiottawa.com/ottsun.shtml