10-year sex ordeal of 'at risk' girl; ABUSE.A GIRL was repeatedly raped by her father for years despite being on a social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales "at risk" register for a decade. A damning report revealed fears that the girl, now 23, was being sexually abused aged three but no action was taken. A trial in Guildford, Surrey, heard authorities saw pictures she had been forced to take of her parents having sex. Jailing the 46-year-old father for nine years, Judge Michael Addison told him: "You ruined your daughter's childhood." He was convicted of indecent assault indecent assault n. Sexual assualt. indecent assault Noun a sexual attack which does not include rape indecent assault n (BRIT) → and rape. The mother, 45, received a 12-month suspended sentence A sentence given after the formal conviction of a crime that the convicted person is not required to serve. In criminal cases a trial judge has the ability to suspend the sentence of a convicted person. for indecent assault. Andy Roberts, Surrey's director for children and families, said: "We have improved our services to ensure this could not happen again." |
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