A mum who held her daughter down as her partner raped her has been sentenced to seven years in jail.
The woman had whispered in her daughter’s ear that her partner wished
to have sex with her the night before her fifteenth birthday, a court
in Queensland heard.
The girl had been sleeping in her mum’s bed when she held her down and removed her underwear.
Judge Michael Shanahan described the mother’s actions as ‘a
substantial break of trust from a mother to her daughter’, according to
News Mail Australia,
He added that even though minimal violence was used the pair had
threatened the girl to keep quiet about the rape and had traumatized her
deeply.
He told the 36-year-old that he did not see a difference between the offenses when it came to holding the girl down or physically raping her.
The couple were found guilty of two counts of rape each.They were sentenced to three years on one count and seven years on the second count to be served concurrently.
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