She was five. He was her father. She trusted him. He gave her a life sentence. She might face future infertility. He will serve three years.
Someone tell this judge that three short years doesn't really seem to give muscle to the statement that :"Sexual assault of a child cannot be tolerated and must be denounced,”
The Star-
An HIV-infected dad who breached his “sacred trust” of parenthood and gave his 5-year-old daughter gonorrhea has been sentenced to three years in jail.
His little girl was “a helpless child who loved and trusted her father,” said Superior Court Justice Bonnie Croll.
There is a chance that his daughter will suffer from future infertility, the judge noted.
Last October, Croll found the 47-year-old man, who cannot be named, guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm and the sexual touching of his daughter in July 2001.
“By passing gonorrhea on to his young daughter (he) caused her severe physical discomfort,” the judge said. Although she was “crying and screaming” with pain, he didn’t tell his wife that he had the disease, the judge said.
“Even more repulsive” was the fact that he did not divulge his having gonorrhea when asked directly by his wife, the judge said.
“Sexual assault of a child cannot be tolerated and must be denounced,” even more so when perpetrated by a parent, Croll said.
Someone tell this judge that three short years doesn't really seem to give muscle to the statement that :"Sexual assault of a child cannot be tolerated and must be denounced,”