A sick and twisted step-father who sexually abused his partner’s young daughter called himself a “creep in the night” in a series of revealing letters and poems penned from inside his jail cell.
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The Illawarra man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, repeatedly raped the girl for more than five years when she was between the ages of 8 and 13.
Alarmingly, the girl disclosed the abuse to her mother following the first incident and again numerous times after that, even telling her of one time when the assault caused her to bleed.
However, the girl’s mother accused her of lying and even threatened to give her “the biggest hit of you life” if she told anyone.
The man was eventually arrested in February 2016 for physically assaulting his step-daughter’s boyfriend, who had learned of the abuse a month earlier. He was jailed over the attack, and it was while he was serving this sentence that the girl told police about the sexual abuse.
A subsequent search of the man’s jail cell revealed dozens of letters addressed to the family, in which he repeatedly confessed his sins and begged for forgiveness.
“Little did you know how hard I tried to fight….the creep in the night,” he wrote in a poem found in his personal possessions.
“Little did you know how hard I tried to stay away from you because I knew what I was going to do.”
When questioned by police, the man initially denied the poem was about his step-daughter. However, he admitted that had been a lie after police showed him another letter found inside the cell in which he made specific reference to the poem being for the girl.
In further scribblings, the man lamented losing the “father-daughter relationship” between the pair.
“She wants another life away from her abuser,” he wrote. “God, I’m such an ugly monster.”
The man was subsequently charged with multiple counts of domestic-related child abuse, to which he pleaded guilty in Wollongong Local Court last week.
A set of agreed facts tendered to the court said the woman asked her now-ex-partner about the abuse in a recorded jail call in early 2017.
“Did you touch my baby?” she said.
“Yes, but not like that,” he replied.
The man remains in custody and will face sentencing next month.