A 55-year-old Nova Scotia man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for sexually abusing his two young daughters over a 10-year period.
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday says the incidents, which occurred between 1990 and 1999, only came to light when the oldest daughter reported her experiences during counselling.
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The accused pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual interference.
The written decision by Justice Mona Lynch says the man started touching his older daughter for a sexual purpose when she was two-and-a-half years old, with the prosecution estimating he abused her at least 50 times over that period.
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Lynch says the father threatened the girl by telling her the family would break up if she told anyone – a responsibility Lynch says “should not have been put on a child.”
The abuse stopped and then the man began touching his younger daughter, who was three-years-old.