Father who raped his daughter, four, and threatened to kill her if she told anyone could leave jail EARLY after court rules his sentence is 'too harsh'
- Queensland father sexually abused daughter, four, between 2005 and 2011
- He was sentenced to nine years in jail in 2019 after pleading guilty to offences
- He was eligible for parole in 2023 but now will be eligible in September 2021
- He appealed judge didn't take into account time he'd already served for robbery
A father who raped his daughter and threatened to kill her if she told anyone will be let out of jail early after his sentence was deemed too harsh.
The man from Bundaberg, in south-east Queensland, was jailed for nine years in 2019 after sexually abusing his daughter from age four to 11 between 2005 and 2011.
In 2018, he pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and five counts of indecent treatment of a child and was eligible for parole in March, 2023.
But he will now be eligible for parole in September, 2021 after a court ruled the judge should have taken into account the time he had already served for an armed robbery sentence, News Mail reported.
A Queensland father will be released from jail early after appealing his sentence for sexually abusing his daughter between 2005 and 2011 (file image)
The first instant of abuse came in 2005 when the father tried to digitally rape his daughter in the bathroom - threatening to kill her if she told anyone.
He then forced her to perform oral sex on him in the bathroom when she was nine, before raping her as she cried out in pain.
In 2017, the young girl secretly recorded her father admitting the abuse where he told her he felt guilty and had been abused himself.
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He was sentenced to four years prison for armed robbery but was released on parole in 2017 after serving two years.
His sentence for abusing his daughter was to be served at the same time as the remainder of his armed robbery sentence.
The father appealed the sentence to the Queensland Court of Appeal because the judge hadn't considered the time already served.
The father will be now be eligible for parole on September 16, 2021.
