Read the full judgment text of FAMC 000008/1998 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 9 July 1998.
1. On 1 April last year, following a trial which commenced on the 24th of the previous month, this applicant was convicted (by a majority of 5:2) on two counts of raping his stepdaughter in the family home almost eight years earlier when she was only nine years old. The victim (as we shall refer to this girl) was born on 1 March 1980. The first count charged a rape on a date unknown between 14 and 31 July 1989, while the second count charged a rape on a date unknown between 1 and 15 August 1989.