Posted on 09/16/2009 9:29:09 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A VICTORIAN man who allegedly raped his daughter almost daily for 30 years, kept her as a virtual prisoner and fathered her four children, has been charged by police.
In what has been described as a case as shocking as Josef Fritzl's in Austria, child welfare advocates have called for a full inquiry amid claims authorities failed to investigate the alleged abuse despite being warned decades ago.
One source close to the case claimed it could be "every bit as bad, if not worse, than the Josef Fritzl case. Especially the fact that she had so many children to her father".
The Herald Sun has also spoken to neighbours of the family, who said they had suspicions of abuse but did not go to the authorities because they did not want to cause trouble.
The victim's mother claims to have been unaware of any abuse, despite sharing a house with her daughter, husband and grandchildren until 2005.
The Herald Sun understands the family has been known to authorities for more than 30 years. Three of the man's children with his wife died -- two of cot death and another drowned.
The surviving children are understood to have spent periods in care.
It is claimed the man allegedly threatened his daughter with violence against her mother and siblings while he raped her at a variety of properties in Melbourne and country Victoria.
The alleged rapes are said to have begun when the victim was aged about 11 in the 1970s and continued until 2007.
Police have known about the alleged abuse since 2005, when the woman came forward, but were powerless to act because she said she did not want to co-operate with police because she was scared of her father.
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The absurd way that the bobbies are tied up in knots over there, I can hardly blame her.
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