to satisfy 'his
vile urges'.

'The offences which the accused has committed against his
daughter and granddaughter, his own flesh and blood, are so
depraved and aggravating that they completely overshadow and
outweigh any mitigating factors in this case.'

And yet he was not the only man forcing himself on his
granddaughter.

The girls' mother had divorced in 1994, after her husband
discovered her naked with her own father.

She married another man two years later, in September 1996,
with whom she had two sons.

It was this 44-year-old man who now preyed on his two
stepdaughters.

When the older girl turned 11 - already violated by her
grandfather - her stepdad raped her in March last year.

Then, in June or July last year, as the two sisters were lying
beside him and watching television, he forced the older girl to
perform oral sex onhim.

Then, after raping her, he outraged the modesty of the younger
girl, then 10, who had giggled when she saw what was going on.

It was not yet over.

In Jan 16 this year, the stepfather again raped his
stepdaughter and had her perform oral sex on him.

Addressing the court on sentence, DPP Ravneet Kaur noted how
the stepfather had committed at least 27 sexual acts, over almost
a year, against the victims - who were abused so often they
stopped resisting his advances.

'It is abhorrent, the manner in which the accused treated the
victims like playthings at his disposal,' she said.

The offences came to light after an aunt asked the older girl
why she was scratching her private parts.

The truth came tumbling out and the horrified aunt called the
girls' father. The whole 14-year saga was eventually