Father pleads guilty to abusing two daughters in Isaac region

A father preyed on his teen daughters, offering phone and money bribes and whispering loving words while he molested them. Now, his years of torment have caught up with him. WARNING: Graphic content

A Central Queensland father pleaded guilty to multiple offences including maintaining a sexual relationship with a child, three counts of rape, indecent treatment of a child and retaliation against a witness.

A depraved father preyed on his teen daughters including forcing the eldest to perform vile sex abuse acts on him and whispered “do you love me?” as he molested her.

The revolting conduct occurred between 2019 and 2021 in the Isaac region.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sexually abused his two biological daughters multiple times when they were aged between 12 years and 15 years.

Mackay District Court heard it only stopped when he was arrested after his former partner, and the girls’ mother, walked in on him in his eldest daughter’s room with his pants around his ankles and his hand under the covers near her genitals.

He was arrested and she gave a statement to police.

Two months after he was released on bail he rang his ex 109 times, threatening her a number of times including telling her “You’re dead, I’ll skull f--k you, I’m coming for you and you won’t see me”.

She was scared.

The court heard his offending against the elder girl generally happened at night when he would enter her room as she was trying to sleep.

She woke up to him touching her genitals as “he whispered, do you love me?”, squeezing her breasts as hard as he could and digitally raping her.

A CQ dad who molested two daughters and threatened their mother after she caught him in the act pleaded guilty to multiple offences including maintaining a sexual relationship with a child, three counts of rape, indecent treatment of a child and retaliation against a witness.

One time he asked her “does this feel good?” as he abused her before forcing her to perform oral sex.

The court heard he made disturbing and emotionally manipulative comments when the young teen tried to make him stop including “all right then you are not my favourite and I don’t love you, you don’t love me”.

He also offered her money or the return of her phone, which had been confiscated.

The court heard the offending against his younger daughter involved kissing her and inappropriate touching over clothing including three times in one night.

“They deserved your love, protection and care,” Judge John Allen said.

“Instead you offended against them in a particularly depraved way, valuing your own sexual gratification over their wellbeing.”

The man, now in his early 50s, pleaded guilty to multiple offences including maintaining a sexual relationship with a child, three counts of rape, indecent treatment of a child and retaliation against a witness.

The court heard the offending had a “profound, emotional and psychological impact” on the victims, was “predatory” in nature, escalated over time, involved emotional blackmail and only stopped because he was “caught in the act”.

Defence barrister Scott McLennan described a tumultuous relationship between his client and his former partner involving cross domestic violence orders.

At the time the pair had arranged opposite schedules so when one was working the other was at home with their children.

“(He) was lonely and depressed and began drinking heavily through that offending period,” Mr McLennan said, adding his client had been heavily intoxicated when he made threatening phone calls to his wife.

He was jailed for seven years, but can apply for parole in just over four months – from October 9, 2023 – because he has already spent 775 days in presentence custody.

Convictions were recorded and he will be a registered child sex offender.