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A Belgian couple who repeatedly raped their four daughters and used them as sex slaves left them with sexually transmitted diseases, bruising, and pelvic injuries.
The mother and father – who have not been named for legal reasons – were sentenced to over a decade behind bars after subjecting their daughters to horrific abuse when they were between the ages of 12 and 21.
The parents abused the four girls – one of whom is said to be the man’s daughter whilst the other three are the woman’s from a separate partner – because they desired threesomes but lacked funds to hire prostitutes, local media reports.
As a result, the mother would take the girls out of their bedrooms and lead them to her partner where he would rape them up to nine times a day, with the mother alleged to have occasionally participated in threesomes.
The couple – both in their 40s – would threaten the girls with homelessness if they refused their sexual advances, with one girl being told the sex would help her own relationship, whilst another was told it would help her lose weight.
The brutal abuse at the hands of the duo from the province of Limburg was unearthed after the two youngest daughters managed to escape the family home by bike on December 30 last year.
After arriving at a centre for sexual violence, the sisters reported that they alongside their two other siblings had been repeatedly raped since January 2022.
An examination discovered the two girls had sustained pelvic injuries, bruising and sexually transmitted diseases, according to dutch outlet De Telegraaf.
A Belgian couple who used their four daughters as sex slaves to fulfill their sexual fantasies have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison
The couple appeared in court in the town of Tongeren (pictured) last month where they were sentenced to over a decade in prison each
The girls were given alcohol, muscle relaxants and lubricants when the abuse took place.
Texts from the mother to the girls showed the level of manipulation they faced, with messages revealing how she would tell them that if they didn’t participate they would destroy the family.
Following the two youngest daughters’ escape, the couple were arrested in their home on December 30, 2023 and later appeared in a Tongeren court for their crimes last month.
The mother admitted during a police interview that she participated in the rapes of her daughters and stepdaughter because her partner would often beat her if she did not comply.
She also confessed that she was afraid of losing him and was worried she would end up on the streets.
The daughters were raped up to nine times a day
Meanwhile, the father accused his partner of coming up with the idea to rape their daughters. He also claimed it was often the girls who approached him themselves.
When delivering a verdict, the judge said: ‘The proven facts are extremely serious. The defendants used their daughters to satisfy the father’s sexual fantasies.
‘At first they tried to do this by means of paid sex, but when they found that the financial resources were no longer available or that no one could be found, the defendants turned to the children within their own family and treated them as free sex slaves’.
The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The judge said: ‘He could not control his sexual urges and showed absolutely no respect for the sexual integrity of his daughter and stepdaughters. In a completely deceitful manner, he continued to maintain that everything happened at the request of the children.’
The mother will spend 13 years behind bars.
‘As the mother of three victims, she facilitated the abuse of her own daughters by, as it were, making them available to her partner and placing her relationship with him above the sexual integrity of her children,’ the judge said.
‘Statements show that she orally satisfied at least one of the victims herself. She therefore directly participated in the rapes.’