A 43-year-old man allegedly began abusing his daughter when she was three years old, assaulting her and confining her naked in the toilet for hours. The abuse went on until she died at the age of five in 2017, said prosecutors. The man is also accused of similarly...
The case was mentioned in the High Court on Monday as prosecutors called for seven of the other charges to be included in his upcoming murder trial.Eight of the charges involve physical abuse, including the man punching, slapping, and kicking her, lifting her up by her neck against a wall and pointing a pair of scissors at her, and throwing her onto a mattress.
On top of the abuse charges, the man also faces six charges relating to offences that took place after the alleged murder. After he was arrested by the police, he purportedly lied in five statements from Aug 12 to 17, 2017 about the circumstances of the girl’s death.Among other things, he told investigators that she died because she had hit her head on a playground slide.
The prosecutor argued the murder charge and the confinement charge overlap in time and involve the same location. They involve “a unity of design and a continuity of action” in terms of the ill-treatment of the girl, he added.
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