Sex offender stepdad has sentence cut by court of appeal A FATHER who repeatedly had sex with his stepdaughter and organised an abortion when she was 12 has had his sentence cut by the Court of Appeal. The man, whose identity is protected by the courts, was sentenced to 11 years jail with minimum of seven years and nine months for a series of indecent assaults and making a threat to kill when the victim was aged from 10 years old in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The victim eventually went to police after moving to Queensland and recorded the man making admissions about his conduct during a telephone conversation. The Court of Appeal yesterday cut his sentence to a minimum of seven years after quashing conviction of one of the 12 charges he was convicted of. The appellant is aged 67 years. He left school at the age of 14 years and worked as a painter, miner and in equipment maintenance. He married and divorced," the Court of Appeal said.