Horrific incest case involving a mum, 51, who raped her son and daughter from the age of 10 to please her perverted husband
- The 51-year-old woman raped her son when he was 15 and abused daughter
- Horrific abuse over more than a decade was instigated by children's father
- But mother would join in when asked to avoid a divorce, a court heard
- Woman was sentenced to nine years in jail with chance for parole in four years
A mother who raped her children to please her perverted husband has been sentenced to nine years in jail.
The 51-year-old woman from Queensland raped her son when he was 15 and her daughter when she was a teenager.
Horrific abuse over more than a decade was mostly perpetrated by the children's father, who is now dead.
The 51-year-old woman raped her son when he was 15 and her daughter when she was a teenager (stock image; not actual)
The woman, who had 'Stokholm Sydndrome', joined in when he asked because she wanted to avoid a divorce.
On Thursday, the mother pleaded guilty at Maryborough District Court to seven counts of rape and was sentenced to nine years in jail with a chance for parole in four years.
The daughter, who was abused from the age of 10 and is now in her 20s, wept as she gave evidence in court.
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She told how she would beg her mother to stop and push her face away, reported the Fraser Coast Chronicle.
Sometimes her mother would watch as her father raped her, before offering tissues to clean herself up, she said.
The teenager was also forced to watch pornography and blackmailed into performing sex acts, the court heard.
She cried as she asked why this had to happen to her and said she was scarred for life.
Horrific abuse over more than a decade was mostly perpetrated by the children's father, who is now dead (stock image; not actual)
The boy was regularly raped by his father in the weeks before the man died.
Before the final rape in 2016, the man told him 'this is the last time that you'll have to do this.'
The children have other siblings who also said they were abused. But charges were only laid in relation to two children.
A psychiatrist cleared the mother of mental illness and said her relationship with her husband was comparable to Stokholm Sydndrome, where a victim falls in love with their kidnapper.
Judge David Reid said the case was 'chilling' and the worst he had ever seen.
He said the mother showed no sympathy or remorse for what she had done to her children.
'Quite frankly, it's disgusting,' he said.
