ONE OF four daughters subjected by their father to a horrific litany of rape and violent assault over a period of almost two decades described him in a victim impact statement as “an animal that destroyed me”.
Another daughter, in one of three victim impact statements read yesterday to the Central Criminal Court, said her father had raped her from the age of five and was “an evil bastard”.
“When I was living with my father, I had nothing but the clothes on my back,” one of the daughters said, adding she had “no money” and “never knew the inside of a shop”.
She had bled many times after rapes and had developed kidney infections, but had never received medication.
Describing how her father had cut her arm with a knife, she said he had used “thick thread” to sew it up. When the infection got bad, he had rubbed it with Savlon on a cloth which “stung like hell”.
She was six stone and he was 20 stone, she said.
“Words cannot describe how painful it was,” she said of the rapes. She had only received medical treatment once.
She had scars on her face and head from beatings. She had tried to overdose, had tried counselling but it was no good and had tried medication. She had so much anger towards her father and “sometimes I don’t want to be on this earth”, she said.
“He took away my childhood, he took away everything . . . he is an evil bastard . . . I hate him not just because he ruined my life but my sisters’ as well.”
She had no confidence, she said, and only for her partner she would be dead long ago.
Another daughter described how she could not go to the toilet as she was so sore after rapes and she received medical treatment only a couple of times.
She felt “ashamed” of what her father had done to her. There was “no love” and she still had nightmares. She described how her father would take her into the woods “the way no one would hear you scream”.
She said that she could not read or write, and the only reason she was alive today was because of her children, who “give me some hope that things might be better in the future”.
A third daughter, in her 20s, said her father would not let them draw money. She had run away at the age of 20. She could not talk to anyone about it, not even her sisters. She had made suicide attempts and had overdosed. “I will never get over it,” she said.