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German jailed for incest, but court rejects rape charges
Dec 19, 2011, 11:09 GMT
Nuremberg, Germany - A German was sentenced to 32 months in prison for incest on Monday but acquitted on 500 charges of raping his adult daughter after the court said it saw no evidence of duress.
The man's arrest in a tiny Bavarian village and questions about why the daughter, 46, never fled had attracted massive coverage in the German media.
The woman said she was 12 when her father began abusing her. She gave birth to at least three sons with genetic defects.
The court rejected demands by prosecutors for a 14-year jail term for serious rape. Presiding judge Guenther Heydner said the daughter's evidence contained contradictions and the alleged threats by the father to hurt or kill her had not been proved.
The father, 69, admitted the relationship but insisted in court it had been consensual.
The father was not accused of sex with a minor, as the time to try him for this had expired under the statute of limitations. The case was one of a series involving sexual exploitation of offspring which have shocked Germany and Austria in recent years.
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