South Yorkshire Police Chief Superintendent Simon Torr said, 'The victims of these terrible crimes have asked me to state the following: 'His detention in prison brings us only the knowledge that he cannot physically touch us again. The judge said the minimum term the 56-year-old rapist should serve in jail should be 19½ years. The father, who cannot be named for legal reasons banning the identification of his victims and the surviving children, pleaded guilty Tuesday at Sheffield Crown Court, northern England, and was sentenced to serve 25 life sentences to run concurrently. Seven of the children are alive but suffer genetic deformities. The two daughters were made pregnant 19 times there were nine births, five miscarriages and five terminations.
(CNN) - A British man was jailed Tuesday for raping two of his daughters and fathering nine children over 27 years, a case with echoes of Austria's Josef Fritzl.
