Philippine dad convicted of rape gets 14,400 years
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A Philippine court has sentenced a father to 14,400 years in prison after he was convicted of the near daily rape of his teenage daughter over the course of a year.
A trial court originally condemned the man, a rickshaw driver, to die in March 2006 after he was convicted of 360 counts of rape — allegedly carried out during the year his wife worked in Hong Kong. But the Court of Appeals in Manila commuted the sentence to 40 years for each count, according to a court decision obtained Friday. The defendant can still appeal to the Supreme Court. It was not clear if he would. (AP)
