rape and incest ends

Granddad assaulted daughter and later 2 granddaughters, as
did their stepdad

By Elena Chong

OVER two separate courts, details emerged yesterday of a
tragic saga of rape and incest, spanning 14 years and endured by
a woman and her two mentally retarded daughters.

At the end of it, the woman's father and her second husband
drew long prison terms, as well as, in the husband's case, 24
strokes of the cane.

Yet, it was the twisted behaviour of the older man, spared the
rod at 61, that had gone on longer.

Some 14 years ago, in March 1990, he had raped his 18-year-old
daughter when she was just one month married: After a drink too
many, he had forced himself on her in her bedroom.

Following this, for a year and a half, father and daughter
would have consensual sexat least once a month until she was
four or five months' pregnant, in October 1991.

She went on to give birth to two girls, in March 1992 and
March 1993, whose IQ was found by a child psychiatrist to be in
the moderate to mild-moderate mental retardation range.

But the old man had not mellowed.

Ten years on, in 2002, he decided he 'wanted to experience sex
with a virgin' - as Deputy Public Prosecutor Chong Kah Wei put it
yesterday - and bore down on the older girl.

Between June and July that year, he tried to rape the then
10-year-old, then settled for making her perform oral sex on him.

He raped her in November 2002 and January last year.

Yesterday, DPP Chong called for a 'substantial' jail term,
saying the man had abused his positions of trust