Imagine you found yourself in this situation.
You have a 15 year old daughter. Your husband, the girl’s stepfather is sleeping in the same bed as her. In fact they have been doing this for the best part of a month. He tells you that he and the girl are “getting closer” and “have developed feelings for each other”. You’re livid with rage, right?
Correct, however in one Canberra family, the source of the mother’s anger wasn’t that her husband was abusing her daughter – no, it was anger at being “traded in” for a younger model.
When her husband told her about him and her daughter, her reaction was to take off in the car, pissed off with him, and return several hours later. Did she act to remove her daughter from the situation? Not at all it would seem.
Asked under cross-examination if she was still angry with her former husband, she said, ”In some ways. Yes and no.” I suppose there’s something in the fact that he’s now her former husband – wonder if that had anything to do with looking after he daughter’s interests, or was something else altogether? I’m surprised her answer to the question about being angry with him was so equivocal – me, I think what he did with the girl is in the category of unforgiveable sins.
The woman told the jury that after police had arrested her husband in May 2008, he told her that he had had sexual intercourse with her daughter twice, not four times as in the girl’s statement. Well that makes it ok then I suppose? Is there some weird rule somewhere that its fine to fuck your step-child, as long as you only do it less than four times?
