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"'I own you': Australian parents sentenced after abusing daughter for 15 years."
"The first time it happened, she said, she was 5 years old.
Her mother was in the hospital — having just given birth to the girl's newest sibling — when her father slipped into her bedroom and raped her, starting a 15-year cycle of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Her father tied her up and locked her in an old chicken coop — or sometimes a small storage box — for days at a time, and surrounded her with barbed wire to keep her from attempting an escape.
He held her underwater and threatened her with a chain saw, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He made her stand on ant hills, swallow hot chilies and eat her own vomit, the Herald reported.
“My father inflicted evil,” she said, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. “He abused me in such ways that I thought I was going to die. My mother didn't stop him and did not protect me. My childhood was lost and I can never get it back.”
Judge Sarah Huggett said the couple, who had backgrounds in teaching and coaching elite sports, “hoodwinked” their community — appearing as dedicated parents, training their children for competitions both in Australia and abroad, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The father would threaten his daughter, telling her if she did not win, “she would be taken to the shed,” the newspaper reported, citing court documents..."
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