A French court today sentenced a 38-year-old man to 20 years in prison, the maximum sentence, for repeatedly raping his underage daughter and also offering her to strangers to sexually abuse her.

In this case tried in the court of Var (south), the only one of these rapists, who was identified by the investigators, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Sentences that were in line with the recommendations of Attorney General Estelle Bois.

Certain aspects of this case are reminiscent of the Mazan (southern) rape trial, which shocked France and the whole world. The victim, Giselle Peliko, aged 71, was unknowingly rushed, having previously been drugged, for a decade by her husband and strangers whom she recruited online.

As of Wednesday, the trial highlighted the father’s influence over his stepdaughter, over whom he exercised complete control and forced to have frequent sexual relations from the age of 13. In addition, he would take her to other men, often much older, whom he had recruited on classifieds sites such as Wannonce, where he and his daughter were presented as a young adult couple seeking to fulfill a fantasy.

Blindfolded, the girl had to suffer the desires of these men in the presence of her father who directed, participated and filmed.

Admitting the facts, the father assured that he had an emotional relationship with the teenager and claimed that he succumbed to her demands.

“It’s not about love, it’s about power and dominance. He doesn’t love (his daughter), he loves to have all the powers over her, to belong to him, to obey him,” Bua pointed out.

The attorney general also blasted the other defendant, who was identified thanks to the geolocation of one of the teen’s numerous pornographic photos and videos found on the father’s phones.

The 60-year-old father-of-six claimed he was trapped, insisting he never questioned the dominance fantasy of two young adults during their first three encounters and was shocked by their last encounter, of which investigators found a video which they called “obscene”.